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24 alternatives to Minard's map of Napoleon's invasion of Russia
Minard's map of Napoleon's invasion of Russia is a historical visualization tool for anyone interested in military history or data presentation. It displays Charles Minard's famous 1869 map showing Napoleon's 1812… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Minard's map of Napoleon's invasion of Russia launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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TimeMap▲325Interactive Map of History: millions of people, events, maps
2024 · oldmapsonline.org · its alternatives →
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Hi HN – Excited to share a beta for Minard, a new data visualization toolkit we've been working on that lets you generate publication-quality charts with simple natural language (throw away your matplotlib docs and rejoice!). Upload or import CSVs, Excel, and JSON, give it a spin, and please let us know what you think! (Long format data works best for now) For those curious, the stack is a simple Django app with HTMX/Alpine and all of the charts are specified and rendered as Vega (https://vega.github.io/vega/). Lots of LLM function calling under the hood as well.
2024 · minard.ai · its alternatives →
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Graphic picture of Napoleon’s Russian campaign.
2018 · 1812.tass.ru · its alternatives →
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Discover where the world’s greatest ideas were born
Nov 2025 · ideas.zudiay.me · its alternatives →
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MapScroll▲109Hi HN, I built this after getting frustrated trying to map out things like “Ancient mayan ruins” or “James Bond movie locations” on Google "My" Maps. You basically have to drop pins manually, hunt down photos, copy links, it’s slow and never feels like an actual story. With MapScroll, you just type something like “Marco Polo’s route” or “forgotten WWII sites in France”, and it geocodes, grabs images + articles, and plots everything into a shareable story map. Each marker comes with a little gallery and sources tied to your prompt. You can also refine the first draft which AI creates before…
2025 · mapscroll.ai · its alternatives →
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Interactive maps of the Punic Wars, Imperial Japan 1870 - 1945 and the Hundred Years
2021 · interactive-history.app · its alternatives →
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DeepState Map▲148Interactive online map of military operations in Ukraine
2023 · deepstatemap.live · its alternatives →
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Globe of History▲189I built Globe of History — an interactive 3D visualization of 6,000 years of human events, mapped onto the Earth’s surface. It includes 5,000+ data points covering wars, inventions, assassinations, natural disasters, and philosophers — spanning 4000 BCE → 2025 CE. The main goal was to build a visual entry point into history — not a database, but a way to instantly sense density and continuity over time. Stack / Process Python for scraping structured event data from Wikipedia/Wikidata Gemini 2.0 Flash for AI-based enrichment and multi-stage verification Mapbox GL JS + React (Vite)…
Nov 2025 · globeofhistory.com · its alternatives →
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The quickest and easiest territory mapping software that you ever used. Trusted by more than 1000 customers for data-driven decisions
2018 · oalley.net · its alternatives →
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Globe wireframe visualizations in Golang. Contribute to mmcloughlin/globe development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Simulate anything on a map from a text prompt -- and conduct risk analysis against LiveUA map's global realtime data points from social media and news sources. I trained a GPT-2-size model on historical incident data used to predict things that will go wrong. As historian Benjamin Breen mentions, the leading language models are good historians, so the application will simulate historical events pretty well also. I include a Multi-Agent RL Urban Mobility model in progress displayed on the map as small white cubes representing traffic and pedestrians. Around SF, it uses real census data and…
2025 · mused.com · its alternatives →
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OP here: I created this visualization tool as the byproduct of a supply chain class I taught at Columbia. The pedagogical exercise grew into a full blown visualization and paper about global oil trade. The model: The mechanics are the same as the financial network Eisenberg-Noe: Instead of banks, every country consumes oil interconnected via bilateral trading. Shocks propagate throughout the network, depleting oil reserves when bottleneck nodes (such as the Strait of Hormuz) are blocked. Insights: The interesting part is the mechanics of how the crisis unfolds: for example, France receives 0…
Jul 2026 · globaloilnetwork.staffinganalytics.io · its alternatives →
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Interactive map of every disputed territory in the world
2016 · its alternatives →
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Charts and infographics constructor in Figma
2021 · store.123d.one · its alternatives →
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This is an interactive map of US navigational aids and lighthouses, which indicates their location, color, characteristic and any remarks the Coast Guard has attached. I was sick at home with the flu this weekend, and went on a bit of a Wikipedia deep dive about active American lighthouses. Searching around a bit, it was very hard to find a single source or interactive map of active beacons, and a description of what the "characteristic" meant. The Coast Guard maintains a list of active lights though, that they publish annually…
Jan 2026 · lighthouses.app · its alternatives →
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- 20IM
2017 · xyz.insightdataengineering.com · its alternatives →
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- 23IE
2017 · mjmdavis.com · its alternatives →
- 24VM
Topological visualizations for the masses
2020 · topovis.iambeef.com · its alternatives →
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