War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history

alansaber

This is cool.

iamanllm

I love this. Did you make it? Why?

marcinignac

Mercator police: please do not use projection that makes Greenland 14x bigger than reality and e.g. Russia 2x. See here https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mercator-map-true-size-of-c... Robinson Projection would be much more accurate.

jeffrallen

War is a racket.

suid

Grumble about the graphics choices: dark-grey-on-black-with-other-dark-colors is a terrible color scheme, that renders the borders nearly invisible. There's a reason print maps have a standard set of colors, with very light blue for oceans, white for land backgrounds, and a variety of dark colors for features. The "modern white-on-black web aesthetic" only really works for text- and figure-heavy pages, where you must then use very light colors (white, yellow, light orange, light green) for features/lines.

andrewmutz

Interestingly, this website reliably crashes my firefox on linux while consuming 55GB of memory. Claude's TLDR of what's causing the problem (may or may not be accurate): "That animation loop is almost certainly leaking memory: each time-step it draws new border geometry (GeoJSON/vector shapes) but doesn't free the old frames, so RAM climbs without bound. When you interact — especially auto-playing the timeline — the tab grows until it swallows all 62 GB of RAM + swap and the kernel kills it."

danielvaughn

This is really neat. Also, the 19th century was far more conflict-prone than I thought.

WesleyLivesay

Cool visuals, as with everything like this where the creator probably just churned open datasets through LLMs there are many inaccuracies particularly around borders. An interesting effort though, and at least this one has a decent page about sourcing.

phishin

Why it matters.

FerretFred

Very interesting and watchable. Do you differentiate between wars and "conflicts"? There's so many of the latter and everyone seems to avoid the term "war".

4ndrewl

I guess the (war?) elephant in the room is that written history as something that attempts to record a somewht balanced, comprehensive account of an event is a modern, western, anomaly.

rebolek

*every = some of them

konart

That moment when you go from stop 7 to stop 8 in Exhibit, from Grand Duchy of Moscow to Russian Empire...

iammjm

About Russo Ukrainian war 2022: > Estimates: 600,000+ Ukrainian military deaths; 100,000+ Russian deaths; 30,000-40,000 civilian deaths. This is VERY wrong. Almost all estimates go for at least 3x higher Russian casualties than Ukrainian. Russia has been attacking for 4+ years just throwing bodies at the problem with Ukrainians defending with technology. Where do these estimates even come from? Makes me question the validity of the information on this site

ge96

There are a couple of war peaks, wonder what the correlation is (why war went down)

Hnrobert42

Amazing! I just wish there was a way to eliminate the text boxes.

pelagicAustral

I recently figured that Spain went on a war for 700 years, just to carry on in the Arauco war for another 300 years, thus, literally being at war for 1000 years.

willchis

Wow this is really neat. I just did a really fast refresher on the history of (conflict in) Europe by scrolling through!

zahirbmirza

This is a fascinating resource. Wow. Thanks to the OP for posting this.

analog31

It missed the Toledo War: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_War But to be fair, this is really cool.