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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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To head off a class of potential questions about the data, here’s the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) SPARQL query I used: https://w.wiki/C9RM

Just run it and browse and inspect the interactive map of results!

@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"…)

@julbriman oh I see. In that case, I just deleted the coordinates for this in Wikidata. (The coordinates are unreferenced anyway, so deleting it is fair game.)

@seav Just spun up #rstats while waiting for the kid at the public pool and was finally able to quickly plot the distribution of Arabic periodicals on a political map for 1900. #CShapes is amazing!!!!

https://icr.ethz.ch/data/cshapes/

@lavaeolus @seav Thanks. I remember cshapes had pre & post WWII maps but didn’t have any representing lines of control during war (e.g. after sept 1939) which was what I was going for. Still have a desire to create those if I can’t find em.