My Sea Router Turned a 50-Mile Canal Crossing Into a 10,337-Mile Detour

Tech Stories Tech Brief By HackerNoon · Sep 25, 2026 · 11m

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A 10,337-nautical-mile detour exposed how coastline data, H3 resolution, and distance quantization can break a global sea-routing graph.

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