Estimating Crowd Sizes Alongside Maps

Estimating crowd sizes tin dismiss endure a really controversial subject. For example Donald Trump claimed at that topographic point were a "million-and-a-half people" at his inauguration as well as said that the press were "going to pay a big price" for reporting figures agency below his goodness opinion.

One agency to gauge the size of a crowd is to run maps to calculate the surface surface area of a crowd as well as thus to multiply that surface surface area yesteryear the estimated density of the crowd. MapChecking is a really uncomplicated interactive map tool that tin dismiss produce this for you. It allows you lot to depict the surface surface area of your crowd, demonstration, march or gathering on a Google Map. It thus allows you lot to travel inward an gauge for the set out of people per foursquare meter inward your crowd. Once you lot convey entered those 2 variables MapChecking automatically plant out the crowd size.

Using a Reuters photo of Trump's inauguration amongst Map Checking gave me a figure of 357,143 people inward the National Mall on Jan 20, 2017. If anything this mightiness endure beingness a fight generous equally I haven't allowed for what await to endure sizable gaps inward the crowd inward the Reuters photograph.