ukraine-timemap VS latynka

https://ukraine.bellingcat.com/ This database, organised on Forensic Architecture's TimeMap platform and customised for this project, is focused on incidents in Ukraine that have resulted in potential civilian harm.

Hi! The only mapping project that I can think of that we've got going right now is ukraine.bellingcat.com, but all of the set-up for that has already been done. Also, we haven't yet opened our volunteer network (the Global Authentication Project) to the public, so if you wanted to join to help geolocate material you'd have to wait for that to happen.

I am not a moderator. However, I would like to point out that these sorts of reports are actually being collected into databases - like this - which seems like an overall more productive thing that posting each one to Reddit, given that Reddit is a high velocity environment (a post from a day ago is prehistory) and heavily dependent on popularity/upvoting for mass visibility.

Hi! We're a very small team, and unfortunately that means that we're severely limited in what we can dedicate our time to. Right now, I think most of us are committed to other projects (including myself: I'm working almost full time on ukraine.bellingcat.com), so we haven't had the time resources to look in-depth at what's happening in Iran.

Bellingcat maintains a map of attacks on Ukrainian civilians: https://ukraine.bellingcat.com/

ie https://codesandbox.io/s/github/gaearon/ukraine-timemap would spin up this repo https://github.com/bellingcat/ukraine-timemap (but its probably faster to git clone and run locally if possible)

Hi, the author of the tool here.

The tool was created five years ago, when there were no Ukrainian national standard to represent Ukrainian language unambiguously in Latin letters (known as romanization, and applies to all languages).

Most commonly you need romanization of person and place names, and the currently in use standard for this is not faithful to Cyrillic source. In my view, we can't have proper name romanization without romanization of the language as a whole, and wide adoption of that romanization. The simplest criteria to choose such a system is the ease of reading pages of transliterated texts.

Thus I made a tool where you can compare historical and modern attempts at such romanization systems, or create your own and join the discussion.

Since then, there is now new Ukrainian national standard ДСТУ 9112:2021, which adequately represents Ukrainian Cyrillic (to new learners: here j is used for palatalized consonants: Zelensjkyj u Ljvovi). The search is over, and this standard will be gradually adopted in the coming years. Expect another campaign KyïvNotKyivNotKiev (Kyïv = Kyjiv).

This tool remains useful in many ways. I personally have it enabled on many sites.

Would Ukrainian be better off dropping Cyrillic for Latin? If we had started with Latin, then sure, Ukraine historically is tightly connected with the rest of the Europe, and it would have been easier having only Latin. But we have Cyrillic history, and to counter that there is no enough reasons to switch.

As others mentioned, the tool does not handle Russian Cyrillic. Well true, because it was created exclusively for the Ukrainian Cyrillic, not any Cyrillic.

Thank you for your patience and support.

https://paiv.github.io/latynka/