[Qgis-user] QGIS and historical battle

[Bernd Vogelgesang]

Hi,
I'm no archaeologist, but I know that there are quite some of them
around on this list.

First short answer: yes, of course!

First counter-question: What kind of geodata is already available to you?

Actually, I think you just need 3 data-sets:
a digital terrain model to find observation spots and valleys
a vector of rivers to find the confluences
a point vector of (historic) towns

Unfortunately you did not mention how big the possible region for this
battle is, so it is hard to guess if it makes sense to create a real
simulation model, or if places can be identified in a semi-manual way.

I think it would be useful to keep the discussion on the list, so others
can learn from the example as well.
Though this is not my business, I am always interested in such kind of
"riddles".

For a starter: There is the great Visibility Analysis Plugin of Zoran
Čučković, where you can create a Visibility Index on a terrain data-set
which I think is exactly meant to identify outlook spots in the
landscape for a given radius.

Cheers,
Bernd


Am 03.02.23 um 09:20 schrieb Lazanu Ciprian-Cătălin via QGIS-User:
> Hello,
> I want to start a project with a great challenge:
>
>   * first an introduction - a battle between two armies in the medieval
>     period. we have a few pieces of information regarding this battle:
>     the number of soldiers from both armies (army A with ~ 25.000/30.000
>     soldiers and army B between 50.000 and 100.000 - medieval chronicles
>     have different numbers) and incomplete information regarding the
>     exact place of the battle. all we know is that it was on a river
>     valley and the main battle was regarding controlling a bridge at the
>     confluence of 2 rivers. another clue is that the battle was at a
>     short distance from an important city (name Town) which is located
>     in that river valley. Army B was marching on the river valley to
>     take the city Town and met army A at a short distance from the city.
>     The battle was around a bridge on the river. That is all we know.
>     (Army A won that battle).
>   * what I want ... I want to see if I could locate that battle (so l
>     could make some archaeological investigation after that) using some
>     simulators ... for example: to see how long the marching formation
>     of army B (50.000 to 80.000/90.000 soldiers) was to see the
>     distribution on the field/road to city Town.
>   * another clue ... we know that the commander of army A (the defender)
>     had a small base fortification from where he could see and command
>     the army and make orders. such a place is visible now on a hill from
>     where you could see at 15 - 20 km down the river valley. (I know
>     that l could use visibility analysis). On the ground, the surface is
>     no visible traces of that battle.
>
> This battle is an important historical moment in the history of my
> country and has an important local value.
> So, is there anything in QGIS or other GIS software something to work so
> l can make a simulation or something like that regarding this kind of
> activity?
> Thank you in advance ... and any suggestions could be sent via email in
> private too.
> Ciprian
>
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