Final Poster Blog

As the project was wrapped up this week, all points were added to the map and symbolized to reflect the outcome of that fight based on who won and if other allies were involved in that fight. The total data on different battles was then separated to create effective maps categorized to five armed conflicts in American history, which are The French and Indian War, The American Revolution, The War of 1812, The Civil War, and Native American Conflicts with the United States. All five maps were then place don a poster slide with introduction, objectives, methods, and conclusion sections as shown. This project showed that most of these wars were fairly even in the amount of victories each side had. The project also shows the wide range of these wars across North America.

Blog Post 7

This week, more points were added for battles that took place during the War of 1812. Another task that still has to be completed is the separation of each war onto its own map to avoid any cluttering of different points. Another task will be to symbolize each point based on the total number of troops present as a means of showing the significance of each battle. Other field of information that could be added to the attributes of the points or to the map itself is still open to suggestions as well. Overall for this coming week, some more changes are very likely to happen soon to diversify this map and make it appear more organized and easier to read and understand.

Blog Post 6

This week, more data points were added including the start of the War of 1812. The points were also expanded in size to make visibility clearer. More attributes were also added including the number of troops on each side and the total troop count when the two sides are added together. The reason for the summing of the opposing sides is because I plan on making a graduated size map out of these points correlating size with the total number of troops present at that battle. I am also considering maybe creating separate maps for each war to avoid any cluttering of my points but I'm not 100 % sure on this yet. For the next few weeks, I plan on adding more points for the War of 1812 and maybe adding more attribute fields that give more information on each battle. Some adjustments to the basemap in the background of the map may also be made in the future to help visibility such as using a flat, single color basemap as oppose to the world imagery map but these choices are up for debate.

Current Map:

Post 5

Last week more points representing Revolutionary war battles were added to the excel spreadsheet. For the map, the points were selected by the war they belonged to and color coded to differentiate each battle between the French and Indian War and the American Revolution. The red points represent the French and Indian War while the blue points represent the American Revolution. These colors are only a temporary change used to keep the points organized into categories. Later I plan on coming up with a better set up for categorizing the points either based on the war they belong to or their outcome. This week I will try to add more points to finish up the Revolutionary War and move on to the War of 1812 as well as focus on an efficient way to design this map so that it is interactive and easy to follow. A series of different symbology shapes for each pint as well as color will most likely be used to display the final sets of points for each war in the future.

Blog Post 4

So far this week, all points representing historical battle fields of the French and Indian War have been plotted on the project map along with complete attribute data for the fields of Name, Latitude, Longitude, Date, and Outcome of each battle. Some points for the first opening battles of the Revolutionary war have also been plotted. For future objectives for this project, the rest of the points for the Revolutionary War will be plotted on the map and more fields for the attribute table will also be added such as opposing nations in the battle and the numbers of soldiers for each side. Points will also hopefully be categorized into each war so that each point can easily be distinguished for the war that it was fought during.

Current Map:

Project Blog 3

This week (week of 10/27/14), more historical battlefield of the French and Indian War were entered into excel and added to the map. The excel table was also further completed by adding dates and battle outcomes to each battle listed. For future objectives, revolutionary battles will be added to the spreadsheet and then to the map. More information such as opposing sides, generals, and troop numbers will also be added to the map. After the Revolutionary war is completed, the War of 1812, Civil War, and Native American Encounters will be uploaded as points. Then even more information on each battle will be researched and found. This information will then be used to update the map to completion.

GIS Historic Battlefields Post 2

This week, the list of historic battlefields that will be plotted on ArcGIS will be added to to better organize all of the desired data. Currently, the Battle of Saratoga has been placed on the list with its lat and long coordinates which will help to plot the battlefield on a map.

Current map:

Project Proposal.

US Battlefields Map


Introduction:
Over the past few years, there has been a major concern for the declining knowledge of history in the youth of America which some wish to change for future educational purposes. This project will collect information on historical battlefields in the United States based on the extent of battlefield GIS data available for analysis. Each point plotted for each battlefield will carry attribute data about the battle like what were the opposing sides, generals, numbers of soldiers on each side, final outcome, land type, and many other important details. The final project will be a passive map providing important information on battles all over the United States showing important national history to the map readers helping to support a growth in peoples' knowledge of their nations history. The search for more GIS data based on battlefield locations is still ongoing and may be limited to certain more recent time frames in history due to a potential lack of record keeping for the specific locations and events of certain battles that occurred. Hopefully data on battle locations for the French and Indian War, the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the Civil War along with skirmishes and fights with Native American Tribes. Some of these wars may have limited data however.

Objectives:

• To create a map showing the locations of important battles in American History. 
• To organize battle information into attribute data for each point representing a battle in the US. 
• Improve peoples' knowledge of history through interactions with the map produced during the project. 

Methodology:

The rationale of the study is to address the lack of knowledge people have about historic battles and provide an interactive way using this GIS map to help improve upon this knowledge.

Procedure-

Step 1: Collect a list of all battles in each significant war in US history that happened on current US soil.

Step 2: Collect latitude and longitude coordinates for each battle to be plotted on the map.

Step 3: Plot the latitude and longitude coordinates for each battle on a base map of the United States.

Step 4: Research the important details about each battle like the two sides, numbers, casualties, winning side, details of the land and other important aspects that can be organized into attribute data.

Step 5: Enter any new attribute data into the attribute table for each point.

Step 6: Categorize each point to each specific war that the battle was a part of.

Step 7: Insert all essential map elements.

Data Sources:

1. ESRI Data and Maps used to create the base map where the points will be plotted.

ESRI Data and Maps (2010) ESRI. Inc., Redlands, CA

2. The American Revolution

The American Revolution (2010) Logan, Joseph T., Dec. 2001, The American Revolution. retrieved October 13, 2014.  Website URL: http://www.theamericanrevolution.org/about.aspx. http://www.theamericanrevolution.org/timeline.aspx

3. The War of 1812

The War of 1812 (2010) Logan, Joseph T., Dec. 2001, The War of 1812. retrieved October 13, 2014.  Website URL: http://www.thewarof1812.org/about.aspx

4. The Civil War

The Civil War (2010) Logan, Joseph T., Dec. 2001, The Civil War.  retrieved October 13, 2014.  Website URL: http://www.theamericanrevolution.org/about.aspx

5. French and Indian War

Feldmeth (2009). California Institute of the Arts. Retrieved October 13, 2014. Website URL: http://www.feldmeth.net/US/fandiwar.html

6. Native American Skirmishes out West.

Legends of American (2012). Legends of American. Retrieved October 13, 2014. Website URL:http://www.legendsofamerica.com/na-cayusewar.html

Work Plan:

10/18- Collect  lists of all battles under each war category and get latitude and longitude coordinates which will be plotted on excel

10/25- Plot latitude and longitude on ArcGIS base map of United States.

11/1- Research important information about each battle and land to input as attribute data.

11/8- Continue research for battle information.

11/15- Plot research information into corresponding points on the map.

11/22- Categorize each point with the corresponding battle it was a part of. Complete map with all required map elements.

12/7- Print off GIS poster with map.

Deliverables:

-The final project will be an interactive map.
-Each point will represent a battle carrying attribute data that tells the reader important details about the battle including name, year it took place, opposing sides, outcome, land type, losses and more.
- Points will be colored coded to represent the battle they occurred during along with which ones were victories and defeats for the US or US colonies under British leadership as in the French and Indian War.

Current Attributes:

Battle	Lat Dec	Long Dec	Date	Outcome
Battle of Saratoga (Freeman's Farm)	42.996	-73.639	1777	Pyrrhic British Victory
Battle of Ft Duquesne I	40.445	-80.009	1755	French Victory
Battle of Ft Oswego	43.455	-76.511	1756	French Victory
Battle of Fort Henry	43.420278	-73.71111	1757	French Victory
Battle of Louisbourg	45.8911358	-59.98592	1758	British Victory
Battle of Ft Duquesne II	40.441611	-80.01094	1758	British Victory
Battle of Quebec	46.81670	-71.2167	1759	British Victory
Battle of Fort Niagara	43.263	-79.0633	1759	British Victory
Battle of German Flatts	42.977799	-74.979	1757	French Victory
Battle of Ticonderoga	43.84172	-73.38761	1758	French Victory
Battle of Beausejour	45.865508	-64.29079	1755	British Victory
Battle of Fort Bull	43.224167	-75.5025	1756	French Victory
Battle of Fort Frontenac	44.263565	-76.50336	1758	British Victory
Battle of Fort Ligonier	40.242117	-79.23887	1758	British Victory
Battle of Great Cacapon	39.270118	-78.44784	1756	French Indian Victory
Battle of Jumonville Glen	39.879444	-79.64559	1754	British Colonial Victory
Battle of La Belle-Famille	43.247277	-79.05005	1759	British Victory
Battle of Lake George	43.439	-73.68	1755	Inconclusive British Strategic Victory
Battle of Petitcodiac	45.923605	-64.64947	1755	French Victory
Battle of Sabbath Day Point	43.667564	-73.51401	1757	French Victory
Battle of Sainte-Foy	46.800358	-73.2194	1760	French Victory
Battle of Sideling Hill	40.12675	-77.95806	1756	French Indian Victory
Battle of Signal Hill	47.569722	-52.68194	1762	British Victory
Battle of Fort Necessity	39.81625	-79.58713	1754	French Victory
Battle of Monongahela	38.3068	-80.25376	1755	French Victory
Battle of the Thousand Islands	44.258866	-76.31358	1760	British Victory
Battle of the Trough	39.134722	-78.94972	1756	French Indian Victory
Battle of Ticonderoga II	43.591489	-73.38808	1759	British Victory
Battle on Snowshoes II	43.428489	-73.76118	1758	French Victory
Battle on Snowshoes I	43.841389	-73.3875	1757	Stalemate
Battle of Kittanning	40.816453	-79.52199	1756	British Colonial Victory
Raid on Lunenburg	44.377005	-64.31884	1756	French Indian Victory
Battle of Bloody Creek	44.816667	-65.28333	1757	French Indian Victory
St Francis Raid	46.066111	-72.82611	1759	British Victory
Battle of Lexington	42.448259	-71.26310	1775	British Victory
Battle of Concord	42.449781	-71.27744	1775	American Victory
Battle of Bunker Hill	42.376361	-71.06078	1775	British Victory
Battle of Long Island	40.666111	-73.96611	1776	British Victory
Battle of White Plains	41.033986	-73.76291	1776	British Victory
Battle of Fort Washington	40.841708	-73.93936	1776	British Victory
Battle of Trenton	40.224892	-74.76489	1776	American Victory
Battle of Princeton	40.327778	-74.67333	1777	American Victory
Battle of Oriskany	43.176667	-75.37	1777	Unresolved
Battle of Bennington	42.938611	-73.30444	1777	American Victory
Battle of Brandywine	39.871944	-75.59	1777	British Victory
Battle of Germantown	40.02851	-75.17497	1777	British Victory
Battle of Saratoga (Bemis Heights)	42.998889	-73.6375	1777	American Victory
Battle of Monmouth	40.220795	-74.74902	1778	Inconclusive
Battle of Savannah	32.050833	-81.10389	1778	British Victory
Siege of Savannah	32.050833	-81.10389	1779	British Victory
Battle of Charleston	32.794167	-79.94202	1780	British Victory
Battle of Camden	32.364553	-80.6139	1780	British Victory
Battle of King's Mountain	35.154436	-81.39789	1780	American Victory
Battle of Cowpens	35.073695	-81.81544	1781	American Victory
Battle of Guiliford Courthouse	36.1312	-79.8488	1781	British Victory
Battle of Eutaw Springs	33.40728	-80.29875	1781	American Victory
Battle of Yorktown	37.239167	-76.51056	1781	American Victory
Attack on German Flatts (1778)	43.025626	-74.98599	1778	British Victory
Battle of Quebec	46.803283	-71.2428	1775	British Victory
Battle of Alligator Bridge	30.562181	-81.83066	1778	British Victory
Battle of Barren Hill	40.08416	-75.25076	1778	British Victory
Battle of Baton Rouge	30.45	-91.1333	1779	Spanish Victory
Battle of Black Mingo	33.616667	-79.43333	1780	American Victory
Battle of Chelsea Creek	42.381881	-71.03202	1775	American Victory
Battle of Fort St. Jean	45.316667	-73.26667	1775	American Victory
Battle of Gloucester	42.606422	-70.66372	1775	American Victory
Battle of Longue-Pointe	45.562622	-73.53081	1775	British Victory
Battle of Saint-Pierre	46.92	-70.6294	1776	American Victory
Battle of Trois-Rivieres	46.35	-72.55	1776	British Victory
Battle of the Cedars	45.30993	-74.03534	1775	British Victory
Capture of Fort Ticonderoga	43.841389	-73.38806	1775	American Victory

Current Map: