New Mapping The Battle Of The Somme


Today marks the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, the largest battle of World War I on the Western Front. It took house betwixt one July together with xviii Nov 1916 together with to a greater extent than than a meg men were wounded or killed.

The Living Legacies Engagement Centre at Queen's University Belfast has released a even out map of the battle, looking inwards item at the fundamental events involving the Irish Gaelic Raised Divisions (36th Ulster & 16th Irish). 4dSomme uses the Esri Story Map library to explore the history of the battle, the importance of field-surveyors & cartographers to the battle together with the fundamental events involving the Irish Gaelic Raised Divisions.

The even out map makes slap-up piece of occupation of modern 3d aerial maps of the River Somme overlaid alongside vintage armed forces maps to plot the advances together with retreats of the Irish Gaelic Raised Divisions during the battle. Vintage photographs together with Google Street View imagery are also used throughout the site to illustrate or together with then of the of import locations inwards the battle.

The concluding interactive map inwards 4dSomme allows y'all to sentiment a break of the vintage armed forces maps overlaid on altitude of a 3d map of the region. This map also allows y'all to overlay the positions of the British together with German linguistic communication front end lines, at fundamental dates, on altitude of the vintage armed forces maps.


Rutland together with the Battle of the Somme is a novel interactive map which recounts the history of the Battle of the Somme together with explains when, where together with how the soldiers from Rutland county died. The map includes a timeline characteristic which recounts the progress of the battle inwards chronological order.

As y'all progress through the battle the map updates to present the front end trouble of the battle every bit it stood at the kickoff of every month. H5N1 modest data window at the altitude of the map also provides brief updates on the progress of the battle.

Poppy shaped markers are added to the map past times engagement to present when together with where Rutland soldiers were killed. You tin click on the markers to acquire to a greater extent than nearly each private soldier commemorated on the map. The reddish cross markers present where a soldier was severely injured, earlier dying subsequently inwards hospital.
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