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Wikileaks attack data by year and type, over Afghanistan regional map
- dougmccune 16y agofyi, those maps are flipped in a weird way compared to north/south geography (I assume this was done plotting the coords on a chart, not projecting the coords onto a map). They need to be flipped vertically and then rotated counter-clockwise 1/4 turn. The bulk of the attacks are in the south-east, not the north-west.
- jordanb 16y agoI noticed that too. It took me a while to figure out what I was looking at. Also you need to change the colors. It's really difficult to tell the different types of attack apart. Nice use of the R maps package though! With a little tweaking, this should be a powerful visualization.
- agconway 16y agoThe orientation is wrong because I reversed the lat/long axes (dumb). Thank you for pointing that out, it's fixed now. Color is a more difficult issue, because so many different attacks type categories exist in the data. Welcome suggestions