Thanks for all the feedback... I'm glad that so many have taken interest in this.

FYI -

I haven't had time to strike a deal with icausualties.org about direct access to their data for a dynamically generated, always up-to-date version of this layer... so in the mean time I'm looking to do a manual update after Thanksgiving. I'd had some volunteer help to flesh out and make corrects on some of the UK data, so that is on the way as well.


I am also still working on the Iraqi civilian/military causualties... although the problem of sheer numbers is still daunting. I'm learning more and more about kml, and ways to keep each xml record down (grouping points, etc), so hopefully this will become a reality some time soon.



>Any good sources of data like this available for Afghanistan and prior wars such as Vietnam, Korea, WWII, etc?

There have also been inquiries about making similiar layers for other wars (WWII, Vietnam, etc). I have been checking out the US National Archives (http://www.archives.gov/) and there seems to be available data (war causualties info anf otherwise) that I'm considering Googl-izing, including:

- WWII POW info
- Vietnam causualties and POW info
- Korean War causualties and POW info
- WWII Japanese American Internment info
- US National Natural Landmarks

Let me know if you have any suggestions/data sources!

sean