I typically don’t go the war map route, even though I love playing war games and reading about global conflicts.

Heaven knows, an American making war maps is kind of scary! :-\ I would argue the United States has used military force for subpar reasons far more than it has for rational ones.

But… I really enjoyed World War II history growing up and the war in Europe had a huge impact on my family – both here in the United States and my blood relatives and in-laws in Germany.

Moreover, in many ways D-Day was the beginning of US world hegemony militaristically – even though the US had no idea at the time it was. And this year, the day is on a Saturday, a day when very few people view this blog or check out these maps anyway. So I figured: what the heck?!

I pulled out my Longest Day and Patton motion-picture soundtrack LPs – found at a thrift store last winter – and spent a couple of hours building a scalable data-rich web map of the D-Day landings. Nothing breakthrough, but not bad for a couple of hours work. Particularly considering I began with zero and just and idea.

Dedicated to all those who have died or been harmed, and inevitably will continue dying and being harmed in the future, due to the fallacy of nationalist ideology.

View Map Here

Original Prompt (Created with ChatGPT and WebMapGPT)

You are building an interactive web map titled **D-DAY: THE LONGEST MORNING**.

Use the files in your sources as gospel for intent, style, data structure, and interaction rules.

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I have attached many of the preliminary, partially filled and scoped datasets for you to use while we build this app out. The datasets will get larger but your designs should allow them to scale.

Thank you!

Dataset Creation with GIS Dataset Doctor GPT

Link to entire conversation with GIS Dataset Doctor GPT resulting in myriad CSV datasets.