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Stephen Gadd
@docuracy.co.uk

🪄Historical Sea Routing is now much quicker to load, reload, and compute seasonally-plausible sailing routes, thanks to some behind-the-scenes browser magic. Find a 6500-mile return trip in under 1 second! 🛟 Do you have historical voyage data which might help with calibration? [1/3]

Stephen Gadd
@docuracy.co.uk

For sea-router calibration: 513 dated voyages from the Datini/Melis corpus (1379–1492) across galleys, carracks, brigantines and more. e.g. Venice → Mallorca, departing in a cog 19 Jun 1396: the router predicts 29 days, the source records 37. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Stephen Gadd@docuracy.co.uk

Companion to the Datini Letters map: a new Voyages explorer for the Melis archive. 3,393 Mediterranean ship records (1379–1492). Arcs coloured by predominant vessel type per route. Ports geocoded via @whgazetteer.org. docuracy.github.io/datini/viagg... #DigitalHumanities #DH #MedievalMed

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