nazarimilad / war-over-time

Script I used to produce videos showing the territorial changes during the Syrian civil war. Iraqi data can also be used with this

War over time

Demo

Prerequisites

• Perl
• LWP Perl module
• PhantomJS
• Imagemagick
• ffmpeg

Installation and usage

1. Clone the repository : git clone https://github.com/nazarimilad/war-over-time
2. move to the repository : cd war-over-time
3. run the script : perl fetch_and_render.pl
4. convert the gif to a MP4 video:

• convert the gif to a serie of PNG files : convert gifs/result.gif gifs/gif%05d.png
• convert the serie of PNG files to a MP4 video: ffmpeg -r 7 -i gifs/gif%05d.png -y -an video.mp4

Positions

• Syria: lat = 34.8000; lng = 40.0000; zoom = 8 ;
• Raqqa: lat = 36.1000; lng = 39.2000; zoom = 10;
• Mosul: lat = 36.3500; lng = 43.2050; zoom = 13;

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
3. Commit your changes : git commit -am 'Add some feature'
4. Push to the branch : git push origin my-new-feature
5. Submit a pull request

Note

I made an extra script named datastructure.pl in the repository, which produces an complex datastructure of multi polygon coordinate data of the different groups. It can be used to make geographical and statistical calculations.