Show HN: I built an interactive globe for verified combat events(defogwar.com)
2 pointsby IMAYousaf4 hours ago2 comments
  • al00sh4 hours ago
    Hi, I worked on the project with OP, would love to answer any questions or field any advice
    • IMAYousaf4 hours ago
      Was a pleasure. I think that people would like to know how you made it smooth and interactive.
      • al00sh4 hours ago
        Honestly Mapbox worked really well here. After getting that working it was just a question of presenting data in a way that was easy to consume. Things like playing around with colors, and the playback speed for the timeline for example. A challenge I see going forward will be accurately representing ground control in the case of a ground invasion in the near future. I’ve been trying to get the Ukraine-Russia war on the project but the main issue so far has been two fold. One is getting accurate day by day ground control information and presenting it well as well as footage from years back with all the dead links out there. And of course the propaganda problem (distilling actual info from propaganda posts that have good combat info and footage) is actually even more difficult in that war.
  • brodouevencode4 hours ago
    Seems like there are a lot of events missing
    • al00sh4 hours ago
      Getting the right number of events ie which events were significant enough to put on here with combat footage was a challenge as well. Particularly for the first day or two where a number of US bases and Iranian targets were hit. I think in particular I’ll try to add more manually for the first two days of the war. But other than those two days were there any specific events you think the AI missed? Sometimes I think it makes the fair decision to combine certain incidents. For example today 3 ships were hit in the strait of Hormuz but I don’t expect three different events for that and I think the right thing would be one event.
      • brodouevencode3 hours ago
        Ukraine seems like the obvious big miss.
        • al00sh3 hours ago
          Oh you mean the whole Ukraine war? Yes we removed that for now for quality reasons and currently we’re just covering the Iran war while we get the particulars right. After that we’ll add Ukraine, Myanmar, Sudan etc. We posted this here first to get input before populating the rest of the conflicts.