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I love this!

Will it be possible to plot historical events on the map? I'd love to see e.g. a month-by-month combined timeline+map of Napoleon's invasion of Russia, or the D-Day invasion.

It would also be neat to be able to link a series of historical events into a sort of "guided tour", to make the events discoverable and put them in context.

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Events are an open discussion topic. right now i personally am trying to figure out event modelling for the Battle of Antietam (Sept 1862) as there is good data available. in the long term, likely we'll want to have a parallel database to contain event data. we're still working through this.

I don't think should be encoded in the map, but imagine if Wikipedia facts were encoded with time + coordinates, then a mashup could illustrate them on a map like this

Wikidata does that: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q151018

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