Bert de Bruijn is an Ottawa IT security consultant and founder of the WikiWar Project. Bert is passionate about Crowdsourcing and Geovisualizing War History. A former member of the Canadian armed forces he’s been a […]
This article focuses on the process of creating a very out-of-date map in GIS. Lots has gone on since I posted Gettysburg: What Could Lee See? last summer. Technology continues to evolve at a dizzying […]
In an age devoid of modern communications methods and digital maps, military generals often made tactical decisions based on what they could see with their own eyes. In studying the Battle of Gettysburg, many people […]
Required reading in numerous U.S. history survey courses, it is the consummate tale of human folly: the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl, or the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms causing major […]
I know things that others don’t, I feel things that others can’t And yet its not part of this time or this place. — From the poem “Out of Time, Out of Place” by Daniel […]