The Sexist Streets Of Brazil

São Paulo based information visualization society MedidaSP has released an interactive map which colors all of Brasil's streets based on whether they bring manly somebody or woman somebody names. The Gender of (almost) All the Streets of Brazil is an impressive information visualization exposing what is apparently a thoroughly sexist approach to naming roads inwards Brazil.

All streets named for men are colored bluish on the map in addition to all the streets named for women are colored red. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 bar plot running downwards the left-hand side of the map visualizes the pct of all the roads inwards the electrical flow map persuasion named for men, all those named for women, in addition to those without a gendered place-name. In São Paulo solitary of the 70,000 streets inwards the urban meat exclusively 5,000 bring woman somebody names, spell 27,500 bring been named for men.You tin movement the map to whatever town or urban meat inwards Brazil to explore how many roads bring been named for men in addition to for women inwards the selected area.

You tin notice out to a greater extent than nearly how the map was made in addition to how the manly somebody in addition to woman somebody street names were extracted from OpenStreetMap on the map's GitHub page.

Also See

Street Names inwards Vienna - a map of all streets named for men in addition to women inwards Vienna
Female versus Male Street Names - a map of manly somebody & woman somebody named streets inwards a few global cities
Las Calles de las Mujeres - an interactive map which shows all streets named for men in addition to women inwards Asuncion, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Cochabamba, Lima in addition to Montevideo. You tin read to a greater extent than nearly this projection (in Spanish) at Geochicas.