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The Long March + Exagerrated Topographic Map (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
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A little lazy but I took the wiki map of the long march and an exaggerated topographical map and spliced them together.

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I didn't really have a reason for doing this, I just like exaggerated topographic maps and was curious about the route.

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[–] 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I fucking love topographic maps I love them!

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Saaaaaaaaame

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    If you can get your hands on an ArcGIS Pro license (they're ~$100/yr), this guy has tons of really cool explorations of ways to visualize stuff using it.

    You can kinda do the same in QGIS, but in my experience Arc is better for the symbologizing and visualization part. QGIS is much faster and more flexible when it comes to just consuming and modifying GIS data though.

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    • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    so the little loop at Zunyi... is there a story associated with that?

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chishui_River

    Also called "The Four Crossings of the Chishui River". It was Mao's first battle where he was given leadership of the battle during the long march.

    Mao had recently criticised the party leadership for fighting conventional battles to hold territory, Zhou and others conceded the criticism was correct and that they had been using the wrong strategies. Mao favoured an extremely mobile guerrilla warfare style that did not seek to hold territory but instead to preserve the army. This extremely mobile style successfully broke the encirclement the KMT had on them and was crucial to the communist movement even surviving. They only had 30k communists at this time compared to the 400k encirclement.

    There is in fact a movie called Crossing that covers this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qScOS_kmeak

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    • [–] 5 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Those exaggerated mountains look pointy as fuck, like those crystal growing kits.

    I wonder how often Mao compared himself to the Monkey King during this march.

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    • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Gosh what silly gooses they could've just gone up and to the left a bit from Fujian Soviet to Hunan. What was Mao thinking !!!

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