Saturday, August 15, 2020

Mapping Napoleon's Russian Invasion


Charles Minard was a pioneer of the purpose of graphics inward technology scientific discipline together with statistics. Probably his near famous creation was his flow-map of Napoleon's disastrous Russian campaign.

There accept been a release of attempts at recreating Minard's Napoleon drive flow-map using modern interactive online maps. Minard + Napoleon is likely the best seek out yet. One argue the map is thence successful is that it overlays Minard's master copy flow-map together with and thence adds interactivity on top.

Minard's menstruum map visualizes the eastward march of Napoleon's army, showing where units split upward off together with rejoined, the declining size of the solid put down forces together with the freezing temperatures (by date). The Minard + Napoleon map has added interactivity to the master copy Minard map, which allows you lot to click on the flow-map to sentiment the engagement together with equally good an interactive nautical chart plotting the solid put down forces size past times date.


Napoleon's March is about other practiced seek out at creating a modern slippy map visualization of the Napoleonic army's movements together with dwindling size. The map includes interactive buttons along the flow-map which allows you lot to sentiment the release of survivors past times location.

However this map doesn't include Minard's temperature nautical chart which visualizes the freezing temperatures faced past times Napoleon's solid put down forces equally they pushed eastwards. The map equally good doesn't include the dates.

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