War Maps joins conflict, governance, population-health, fuel-price, and civilian-casualty observations without hiding their different units, dates, or evidentiary boundaries. Use this guide to verify every displayed layer, understand the decisions that connect them, and learn what the interface cannot establish.
About the projectOrigins, authorship, license, citation, and project governance.
Map formulationNested enclosures, joins, transformations, and interpretation.
Conflict dataUCDP conflict-year and candidate-event records.
Governance dataV-Dem regime categories and transitions.
Population healthIHME mortality and fertility plus World Bank / UN crude birth rate.
Map datasetsGas Map and Civilian Casualties sources, units, dates, and exclusions.
Coverage and limitsTemporal boundaries, missingness, and excluded claims.
CitationsCanonical source links, versions, and reuse notes.
Color legendThe shared semantic palette used by every visualization.