???????? | SyriaWeek – A Pol-Mil Presentation of Control and Conflict in Syria

SyriaWeek.info compiles daily updates from a variety of sources to construct a highly detailed and viewer-interactive map of the Syrian political-military situation on a daily basis.

The map’s detail distinguishes between more than just regions – zoom in on any major city to compare the day’s events on a neighborhood-to-neighborhood basis. Monitor Syria’s daily status, zenga-zenga.

Also, unlike maps presented in major publications, SyriaWeek details events on a day-to-day basis for the highest possible accuracy.

The maps are intended to be compared, not just viewed separately; the 2014 maps are published as PowerPoints so that visitors can navigate along a timeline, and at their own pace; the 2015 map currently displays the situation in Syria as of just 4 days ago, but a time-slider is coming soon to allow viewers to compare events and control changes over time by sliding the time bar. A map key is included on each page to provide a general explanation of what each color signifies; thorough explanations, such as relative definitions of ‘Islamist,’ ‘major conflict,’ and ‘minor conflict,’ are provided on the methodology page.

The 2014 map pages are divided into two categories – regions and cities. All maps are screenshots taken from different zoom levels of a single map covering the whole of Syria. The maps were created using the CartoDB, a fantastic program that should be on the to-see list of anyone that liked this site enough to pay a visit.

The 2015 map updates daily, displaying the situation exactly 4 days prior to today. All 2014 presentations reflect the situation in Syria at four sections per month.