Mapping Trump's Wall

If Donald Trump becomes president he plans to terminate Americans escaping to the gratis earth yesteryear edifice a massive wall along the edge of Mexico. More than 650 miles of the 1,954 mile long U.S.-Mexico edge is already fenced. This way that the 'Welcome to Trumpland' Wall volition demand to live on at to the lowest degree 1,300 miles long. That's a lot of Chinese steel.

You tin larn a expert feel of the scale of structure needed to build Trump's wall inwards a novel video from the Intercept. The Intercept downloaded too stitched together 200,000 satellite images to exercise a huge strip map of the U.S.-Mexican border. You tin sentiment this strip map inwards Visualizing the U.S.-Mexico Border, a brusk video which pans along the whole border.

An interactive map of Trump's proposed wall likewise exists. Doug McCune has used Mapbox GL to exercise a 3d map of Trump's wall. The wall is colored inwards a patriotic red, white too blue. However the scale of the wall is in all likelihood a petty out (it appears to live on at to the lowest degree ten miles high on Doug's map).