Today is Swiss National Day. To score this exceptional 24-hour interval Vasile Coțovanu has created a timeline map showing the history of the accession of the dissimilar cantons.
In 1291, 3 cantons joined together into the commencement confederation. The Swiss Confederation straight off includes 29 cantons. The Accession Timeline of the Swiss Cantons is a Google Map showing when each of the 29 cantons joined the confederation.
The map includes a slider tool that users tin accommodate to stance the dates when the diverse cantons (shown on the map amongst shaped polygons) joined amongst the other cantons.
The map together with timeline slider tool is a groovy agency to visualise history on a map together with luckily Vasile has opened upward sourced the code. The code is available on GitHub. To exercise a like map you lot but postulate to edit the events together with the polygon geometries.
