Follow the Eighth Marines on Google Maps

One-Eight Basetrack is an experimental media project, tracking the deployment of 1/8 – 1st Battalion, Eighth Marines, throughout the duration of their deployment to southern Afghanistan. A small team of mobile media operators is embedded with the battalion, transmitting their reports and reflections from Helmand province as they travel across the battalion’s area of operations.



The project is using Google Maps with the SIMILE Timeline to provide a navigation aide to the videos, photographs and posts collected by the team on the ground.



The videos of the marines serving their tour of duty in Afghanistan are particular powerful. As photographer Teru Kuwayama says the project creates "a pipeline between 1,000 Marines working in very austere, isolated conditions in southern Afghanistan and connects them to their mothers, their fathers, their wives, their girlfriends, their husbands and their kids."



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WikiLeaks War Logs Mapped - Part Four

Ekstra Bladet - Warlogs

Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet, who have already mapped all the WikiLeaks Afghanistan warlogs involving the Danish army, have now mapped all 75,000 entries.

This Google Map uses the Maptimize marker clustering solution to map so many markers. Approximately 500 reports from the WikiLeaks documents do not contain geographic data so they obviously don't appear on the map.

Also See

• WikiLeaks War Logs
• Afghanistan War Logs: IED Attacks Map - map from The Guardian
• Afghanistan: The War Logs Map - another Guradian produced map

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WikiLeaks War Logs Mapped - Part Four

AFG War Diary

I thought that it would only be a matter of time before someone used the MIT Simile Timeline and Google Maps to map the 75,000 US military reports covering the war in Afghanistan that were released by WikiLeaks. I even considered having a go myself but the sheer number of reports dissuaded me.

The Motion Média team has obviously spent a few hours putting this together so that you can navigate the WikiLeak documents by time and by location.

The map does carry a warning that it can only be viewed in FireFox.

Also See

• WikiLeaks War Logs - WikiLeaks themselves have mapped the US military reports from Afghanistan
• Næsten 4.000 civile dræbt i Afghanistan - Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet has mapped references to incidents involving the Danish army
• Afghanistan War Logs: IED Attacks Map - from The Guardian newspaper
• Afghanistan: The War Logs Map- from The Guardian newspaper

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WikiLeaks War Logs Mapped - Part Three

WikiLeaks War Logs

Having spent a couple of days reporting on Google Map mashups of the WikiLeaks War Logs from Afghanistan I thought I'd have a look at the war logs myself on the WikiLeaks site. Lo and behold it looks like WikiLeaks have themselves mapped all of the 75,000 US military reports covering the war in Afghanistan.

The logs are categorised on the WikiLeaks site by Type, Category, Region, Affiliation, Date and Severity. If you click through to view an individual file you can see the location of the reported incident on a Google Map placed at the bottom of the log.

Næsten 4.000 civile dræbt i Afghanistan

Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet has been analysing the WikiLeaks War Logs for references to incidents involving the Danish army. They have created a Google Map interface to their findings showing the locations of the references to Danish soldiers.

The mapped incidents are categorised into Enemy Action, Explosive Hazard, Friendly Action, Non-Combat Event and Other. Each category is given its own category of map marker. If you click on a marker you can read the leaked war log in full.

Each information window also has a permanent link. So if you wish to share a particular war log with someone you can give them the link. When the recipient clicks on the link they will be taken to the map and to the open information window of the selected war log.

Hat-tip: Microformats.dk

Also See The Guardian's Maps

• Afghanistan War Logs: IED Attacks Map
• Afghanistan: The War Logs Map
  

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Afghanistan War Logs Mapped - Part two

Afghanistan War Logs: IED Attacks Map

The Guardian newspaper have created another informative Google Map from the WikiLeaks War Logs from Afghanistan. The Guardian's IED Attacks Map shows the location of 16,000 improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan over 5 years. The improvised explosive device (IED) is the Taliban's weapon of choice.

The map includes an animated timeline. If you press play at the bottom of the map you can watch the data being animated on the map from 2004 to 2009. It is even possible to view what data you wish to view on the map whilst it is being animated. The map includes markers for civilians, coalition troops, Afghan troops and others. You can select to view any combination of the map markers.

On Sunday The Guardian released the Afghanistan: The War Logs Map. The map geotags a selection of 300 of the key intelligence reports from the War Logs.

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WikiLeaks War Logs on Google Maps

Afghanistan: The War Logs Map

On Sunday WikiLeaks released 92,201 records of individual events or intelligence reports from US military files pertaining to the war in Afghanistan. The New York Times, The Guardian and Der Spiegel were all given access to the material several weeks ago. All three publications have now released a series of articles about the leaks. The Guardian has also produced an interactive Google Map.

The Guardian's 'The War Logs Map' geotags a selection of 300 of the key intelligence reports. The paper claims that they "have ensured none includes information identifying intelligence sources or putting Nato troops at risk".

The map is really just a navigation guide to the war logs. The logs are mapped by category; 'accident', 'Afghan friendly fire', 'coalition friendly fire', 'civilian casualties', 'demonstration / unrest' and 'other'. Each map marker contains a link to read the war log in full.

The Guardian have also provided a link to the data behind the map. So if you think you can do better in mapping the data you are free to give it a go.

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