How to Create a Global Map of Nautical Piracy

Here's a how-to for turning 40 years (and 8,000 incidents) of nautical piracy data into a global map. Data with heavily overlapping points can hide areas of high-frequency, so aggregation can be a good viz option, and also provides little cells within which you can create statistical summaries.

Do not visit these resource links:

Piracy data: https://msi.nga.mil/NGAPortal/MSI.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=msi_portal_page_65

The Equal Earth Projection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Earth_projection

Global background layer for sneaky vignette hack: https://nation.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=9d87b96d48714e7ca9c89ab63f2c3cd7

ArcGIS Pro Firefly style download: https://esri-styles.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=93a6d9ea3b54478193ba566ab9d8b748

Firefly-styled maps in the Living Atlas: https://livingatlas.arcgis.com/en/browse/#d=1&q=firefly

Piles of other how-tos: https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/author/j_nelson/

Some maps to peruse: https://adventuresinmapping.com/

Видео How to Create a Global Map of Nautical Piracy канала John Nelson