Mapping the victims of a Conflict
The thought of returning to conflict sparked by recent events have made me re read the saddest book I have ever read. It is a book called Lost Lives and it details practically every person who was killed in our “troubles“. The book gives a paragraph on each person detailing how and where they were killed, it reminds you that behind the statistics and news headlines there was once a 3 dimensional person.
Following on from this book and attempting to do the same thing (and a lot more) on the web is the CAIN Web Service (Conflict Archive on the INternet). They are currently starting a new project which “…will involve mapping location data related to victims and commemoration onto the Web. Some of the work will involve using proprietary software, such as Google Maps/Earth, to provide users with enhanced ways of manipulating, visualising and interpreting the data. In addition Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software will be used to analyse the data and to produce high quality maps”.
