Still Edifice Trump's Wall
Donald Trump wants to pass millions of hard working Americans' tax-dollars on a wall betwixt the the States as well as Mexico. KPBS claims that 653 miles of that wall already exists, 90% of which was built inward alone the final 12 years past times Presidents Bush as well as Obama.
KPBS submitted a lay out of Freedom of Information requests to U.S. Customs as well as Border Protection inward social club to larn where that 'wall' is as well as when these sections were built. You tin explore the information on their novel interactive map America's Wall.
Using the map y'all tin direct sections of the wall to encounter when it was constructed as well as what type of physical barrier it is. You tin too purpose the timeline nautical chart to encounter how much of this existing wall was built inward whatever especial year. This timeline is synced to the map. When y'all click on the nautical chart the map is filtered to alone present the sections built inward the selected year.
USA Today flew & drove along the entire 2,000-mile edge betwixt the the States as well as Mexico. During these journeys they mapped every known slice of the existing edge combat betwixt the 2 countries. You tin persuasion the locations of this existing edge combat as well as too persuasion the aerial video USA Today shot during their flying along the edge on their interactive map.
Should nosotros build a wall? Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 2,000-mile search for answers non alone maps the existing edge combat but too explores some of the problems the USA could confront inward trying to build Trump's wall betwixt United Mexican States & the USA. The map shows where the existing combat consists of vehicle barriers, pedestrian fencing, other fencing as well as where no fencing currently exists.
The start of 'Should nosotros build a wall' is inward a floor map format. This department explores some of the geographical, economical as well as legal problems the USA could confront inward trying to build Trump's wall. You tin persuasion some of these geographical problems yourself inward the USA Today's aerial videos. If y'all scroll to the bottom of the floor map as well as click on the 'Explore the map' push y'all tin click on the map to persuasion videos of the aerial footage captured during the flying along the border.
'Should nosotros build a wall' is merely 1 business office of USA Today's special study The Wall - an in-depth exam of Donald Trump's edge wall. In the remainder of the study y'all tin read interviews, brain to podcasts as well as explore the edge inward virtual reality.
Reveal, from the Center for Investigative Reporting, has too been collecting information on the US-Mexico edge for a lay out of years. They convey spent a long fourth dimension mapping the existing edge combat using satellite imagery as well as 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 thus take away to endure 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 combat as well as shows where it is a 'vehicular' as well as where it is a 'pedestrian' fence. The map too shows where no combat currently exists.
You tin acquire a practiced feel of the scale of structure needed to build Trump's novel wall inward a video from the Intercept. The Intercept downloaded as well as stitched together 200,000 satellite images to do a huge strip map of the U.S.-Mexican border. You tin persuasion this strip map inward Visualizing the U.S.-Mexico Border, a curt video which pans along the whole border.
From Donald Trump's 'detailed' structure plans nosotros know that the Trump Wall volition endure upwards to fifteen meters high, made of concrete as well as steel (but too maybe fencing) as well as volition endure 1,954 miles long. If y'all are having difficulty envisioning merely how far 1,954 miles is so y'all tin purpose 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 as well as United Mexican States on whatever other place on Earth.
If y'all desire to do your ain Trump Wall map so y'all tin acquire Reveal's data for the US-Mexico edge combat on Github. You tin read to a greater extent than almost how this information was collected as well as mapped inward the Reveal article The Wall: Building a continuous US-Mexico barrier would endure a tall order.
