Civilian Harm in Ukraine TimeMap

Explore it in ukraine.bellingcat.com
Download/integrate the data from here (regularly updated dataset)

Read Bellingcat's article about this project in English (UK), Русский (Россия)

TimeMap is a tool for exploration, monitoring and classification of incidents in time and space, originally forked from forensic-architecture/timemap.

Development

• npm install to setup
• adjust any local configs in config.js
• CONFIG=config.js npm run dev or npm run dev if the file is named config.js
• For more info visit the original repo

Deployment

This project is now living in github pages and the API has switched to auto-updated S3 files. Access it at https://bellingcat-embeds.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/production/ukr/timemap/api.json

Release with npm run deploy.

Contributing

Please read our Contribution Guide and check our Issues Page for desired contributions, and feel free to suggest your own.

Configurations

Documentation of config.js

• SERVER_ROOT - points to the API base address
• XXXX_EXT - points to the respective JSONs of the data, for events, sources, and associations
• API_DATA - S3 file address that can be downloaded or integrated into external apps/visualizations
• MAPBOX_TOKEN - used to load the custom styles
• DATE_FMT and TIME_FMT - how to consume the events' date/time from the API
• store.app.map - configures the initial map view and the UX limits
• store.app.cluster - configures how clusters/bubbles are grouped into larger clusters, larger radius means bigger cluster bubbles
• store.app.timeline - configure timeline ranges, zoom level options, and default range
• store.app.intro - the intro panel that shows on start
• store.app.cover - configuration for the full page cover, the description is a list of markdown entities, can also contain html
• store.ui.colors and store.ui.maxNumOfColors are applied to filters, as they are selected

Easiest way to deploy the static files is through

• nvm use 16
• npm run build (rather: CI=false npm run build)
• copy the files to your server, for example to /var/www/html