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Building Upward Walls


Donald Trump wants to build a 2,000 mile wall betwixt United Mexican States together with the USA. This American Life has been wondering virtually the resultant that edge walls accept on the lives of the people who alive close them. In The Walls This American Life has compiled a position out of stories from to a greater extent than or less the world. In these stories This American Life correspondents take in together with speak to individuals together with communities living inwards the shadows of walls.

The Walls is accompanied past times an interactive map which shows the locations featured inwards all the podcast stories. This map allows yous to zoom-in on the diverse locations together with persuasion the edge walls (using Mapbox GL's extruded polygons to visualize the edge walls). Each place includes aerial imagery together with and a real curt description of the edge wall.

If yous are having difficulty envisioning only how far big Trump's proposed wall would last together with then yous tin purpose the Berliner Morgenpost's interactive map. The Trump Wall Comparison Map allows yous to overlay an outline of Trump's proposed edge wall betwixt the USA together with United Mexican States on whatsoever other place on Earth. You tin likewise teach a proficient feel of the scale of structure needed to build Trump's wall inwards a video from the Intercept. The Intercept downloaded together with stitched together 200,000 satellite images to practise a huge strip map of the U.S.-Mexican border. You tin persuasion this strip map inwards Visualizing the U.S.-Mexico Border, a curt video which pans along the whole border.