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I noticed that there was a battle from the 20th century in the eastern Bay Area, and was confused about what it could be. It turns out that it was the Port Chic
by Maultasche 11y ago
I noticed that there was a battle from the 20th century in the eastern Bay Area, and was confused about what it could be. It turns out that it was the Port Chicago disaster (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Chicago_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Chicago_disaster).
It was during wartime, and a lot of people died, but it really wasn't a battle. It was an accident that involved a lot of munitions. The only opponent in that "battle" was unsafe working conditions.
They don't have the explosion of the munitions ship in Halifax in 1916 listed as a battle, which was a very similar situation, so I'd say there are some issues with the source data.
It's a very interesting map though. They have a lot of stuff on there.
- ringshall 11y agoJust a small correction - the Halifax Explosion happened in 1917, not 1916.
- arprocter 11y agoIt also seems to list a polar expedition as a battle (right at the bottom of South America)
- nodegoat 11y agoThanks! There is indeed some noise and messy data as well as some questionable categorisations, all taken from wikipedia/dbpedia/wikidata. See this blogpost ( http://nodegoat.net/blog.s/14/a-wikidatadbpedia-geography-of-violence http://nodegoat.net/blog.s/14/a-wikidatadbpedia-geography-of... ) for a full description of how we got the data.