Exploring Trump's Wall
Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting has been collecting information on the US-Mexico edge for a give away of years. They convey spent a long fourth dimension mapping the existing edge ground using satellite imagery in addition to authorities PDF maps of the border.
From this information Reveal has discovered that to a greater extent than or less 700 miles of the 1,954 mile long U.S.-Mexico edge is already fenced. Trump's novel wall volition hence bespeak to hold upwardly at to the lowest degree 1,300 miles long. That's a lot of Chinese steel. You tin explore Reveal's operate on their The Wall interactive map. The map shows the electrical flow ground in addition to shows where it is a 'vehicular' in addition to where it is a 'pedestrian' fence. The map besides shows where no ground currently exists.
You tin instruct a proficient feel of the scale of structure needed to build Trump's novel wall inwards a video from the Intercept. The Intercept downloaded in addition to stitched together 200,000 satellite images to practice a huge strip map of the U.S.-Mexican border. You tin persuasion this strip map inwards Visualizing the U.S.-Mexico Border, a brusk video which pans along the whole border.
Another interactive map of Trump's proposed wall besides exists. Doug McCune has used Mapbox GL to practice a 3d map of Trump's wall. The wall on this map is colored inwards a patriotic red, white in addition to blue. However the scale of the wall is likely a trivial out (it appears to hold upwardly at to the lowest degree 10 miles high on Doug's map).
From Donald Trump's 'detailed' structure plans nosotros know that the Trump Wall volition hold upwardly up to xv meters high, made of concrete in addition to steel (but besides peradventure fencing) in addition to volition hold upwardly 1,954 miles long. If y'all are having difficulty envisioning but how far 1,954 miles is so y'all tin role the Berliner Morgenpost's interactive map. The Trump Wall Comparison Map allows y'all to overlay an outline of Trump's proposed edge wall betwixt the USA in addition to United Mexican States on whatever place on Earth.
If y'all desire to practice your ain Trump Wall map so y'all tin instruct Reveal's data for the US-Mexico edge ground on Github. You tin read to a greater extent than nearly how this information was collected in addition to mapped inwards the Reveal article The Wall: Building a continuous US-Mexico barrier would hold upwardly a tall order.