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I’m not sure if #Wikidata is complete or accurate but looking at the map, and not being a WW1 expert, I’m actually surprised that there’s very little activity inside #Germany. The Western Front is quite obvious, and southern #Finland is quite active. The Middle East is also seeing a lot of action.

I again used my Day 13 new tool #D3js to render an Albers equal-area map of #Europe with standard parallels at 35°N and 65°N.

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@seav what's the point right in the middle of France? A bit far from the front, this one

@julbriman According to Wikidata, it's the Battle of the Frontiers: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q687572

I’m quite sure the coordinates in Wikidata are wrong because they’re too imprecise and are far from the front lines.

@seav oh, I see. That's not really a battle like Verdun or Gallipoli, more like a series of fights all along the Western front. Not sure one can actually pinpoint coordinates for such an event (imagine having coordinates on the item "World War I"…)