Very, very cool, John!! As one who has zero programming experience, did this take you a ton of time to accomplish, and do you have plans to continue with other battles, or was this a Gettysburg-only exercise?
I love this stuff! I wonder what our master time keeper, @Tom Elmore thinks of this. It must be difficult to place troops when you are restricted to showing only the brigades. There were plenty of times when individual regiments broke off their parent brigades in significant action.
Is it possible to have a map selection feature to your work? One map would be the current map you used, The other map would either be a Google satellite map or a map such as Battlefield America which shows most monument locations.
Wow, that's an interesting idea. Theoretically it works if I scale the 2nd map to match *exactly* with the 1st map. In that case the animation running over the top of the two maps has the same effect. Right? The skeptic in me says the 2 maps will not be 100% identical: the historic map was hand-drawn using 19th century technology, while the 'satellite map' is just a photo...seems like mis-alignments are inevitable, but how bad?
Great idea.
Love it.
what program are you using to put this together?
I have no idea on the technology you used to do this fine presentation. Is it possible to have a map selection feature to your work? One map would be the current map you used, The other map would either be a Google satellite map or a map such as Battlefield America which shows most monument locations.
Wow, that's an interesting idea. Theoretically it works if I scale the 2nd map to match *exactly* with the 1st map. In that case the animation running over the top of the two maps has the same effect. Right? The skeptic in me says the 2 maps will not be 100% identical: the historic map was hand-drawn using 19th century technology, while the 'satellite map' is just a photo...seems like mis-alignments are inevitable, but how bad?