Mapping Minard's Napoleon Menses Map

Charles Minard was a pioneer of the move of graphics inwards applied scientific discipline too statistics. Probably his almost famous creation was a catamenia map showing Napoleon's disastrous Russian own of 1812. His map displayed:

• the army's place too direction, showing where units separate off too rejoined
• the declining size of the regular army
• the freezing temperatures (by date) during the retreat

Napoleon's March, Leaflet Data Visualization Framework's modern reworking of Minard's catamenia map is a skillful endeavor at a slippy map visualization of the Napoleonic army's movements too dwindling size. Unfortunately the map lack's Minard's temperature nautical chart that visualized the freezing temperatures faced past times Napoleon's regular army every bit they pushed eastwards.

There used to live a skillful Google Maps based visualization of Minard's catamenia map, created past times Mike Bostock. Unfortunately Minard's Naopleon has fallen fowl of Google's discontinuation of version ii of the Google Maps API. Ironically the timeline temperature is all that survives now. However the code is nonetheless at that spot if anyone wants to update it to piece of occupation amongst version three of the Google Maps API.