{"id":1806114,"date":"2022-02-24T08:12:41","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T13:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1806114"},"modified":"2022-02-24T08:12:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T13:12:41","slug":"a-crowdsourced-map-of-the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/02\/a-crowdsourced-map-of-the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"A Crowdsourced Map of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Russia-Ukraine Monitor Map<\/a> \u201cis a crowdsourced effort to map, document and verify information in order to provide reliable information for policymakers and journalists of the on-the-ground and online situation in and around Ukraine. […] The pins on this map represents open source material such as videos, photos and imagery that have been cross-referenced with satellite imagery to determine precise locations of military activity.\u201d It\u2019s produced by the Centre for Information Resilience<\/a>. [Boing Boing<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Russia-Ukraine Monitor Map \u201cis a crowdsourced effort to map, document and verify information in order to provide reliable information for policymakers and journalists of the on-the-ground and online situation in and around Ukraine. […]… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[585,464],"class_list":["post-1806114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-conflicts","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1806183,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/03\/mapping-the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-a-roundup\/","url_meta":{"origin":1806114,"position":0},"title":"Mapping the Russian Invasion of Ukraine: A Roundup","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"2 March 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"Areas vs. lines. I\u2019ve seen several reminders that the areas shown in some maps as being under control by Russian forces are not necessarily under Russian control. Since Russian columns have to stick to major roads and cannot, under current conditions, move cross-country, the argument is to visualize Russian incursions\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Conflicts"","block_context":{"text":"Conflicts","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/conflicts\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Map of Ukraine showing Russian incursions from Nathan Ruser, Putin\u2019s War: The Daily Ukraine Brief, 2 Mar 2022.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/daily-ukraine-brief-2022-03-02-1024x740.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/daily-ukraine-brief-2022-03-02-1024x740.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/daily-ukraine-brief-2022-03-02-1024x740.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/daily-ukraine-brief-2022-03-02-1024x740.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1806237,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/03\/mapping-the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-roundup-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1806114,"position":1},"title":"Mapping the Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Roundup #2","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"8 March 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"Content warning: Some of these links contain disturbing images: I\u2019ve marked them with a \u2020. More on the question of whether theatre maps accurately reflect the ground situation. Nathan Ruser\u2019s maps have been used to argue that Russian forces are controlling roads rather than territory, but Ruser complains that his\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Conflicts"","block_context":{"text":"Conflicts","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/conflicts\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/daily-ukraine-brief-2022-03-02-300x217.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1813020,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/03\/the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-one-year-later\/","url_meta":{"origin":1806114,"position":2},"title":"The Russian Invasion of Ukraine, One Year Later","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"3 March 2023","format":"link","excerpt":"Russia invaded Ukraine a year ago last Friday. Kenneth Field looks at how media organizations have used maps to mark the anniversary. Via Maps Mania, Grid\u2019s map-heavy interactive timeline of the war. Also via Maps Mania, The Undeniable Street View uses street-level imagery to show the damage inflicted on six\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Conflicts"","block_context":{"text":"Conflicts","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/conflicts\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4951,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/09\/mapping-the-earthquake-in-central-mexico\/","url_meta":{"origin":1806114,"position":3},"title":"Mapping the Earthquake in Central Mexico","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"25 September 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"This crowdsourced map of collapsed and damaged buildings in Mexico City (in Spanish) appeared shortly after the 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit central Mexico on 19 September [via]. NASA also produced a map, based on radar data from the ESA's Copernicus satellites that compared the state of the region before and after\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Geology"","block_context":{"text":"Geology","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/geology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/nyt-mexico-earthquake-1024x542.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/nyt-mexico-earthquake-1024x542.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/nyt-mexico-earthquake-1024x542.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/nyt-mexico-earthquake-1024x542.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1806375,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/03\/general-milleys-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":1806114,"position":4},"title":"General Milley\u2019s Map","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"14 March 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"General Mark Milley, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, has been carrying a map of Ukraine with him everywhere he goes, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius reports in a piece that looks at U.S. intelligence gathering and work with its allies during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. 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