Mapping The 2015 Hajj Crush

During end year's Hajj hundreds of pilgrims were crushed to buy the farm inward Mecca. The Hajj is the largest annual gathering of people inward the world. The large increase inward pilgrim numbers over the end ii decades has resulted inward a issue of tragic accidents as well as crushes which bring resulted from the overcrowding.

The New York Times has published an interactive trouble organization human relationship of end year's tragic events, told from the perspective of Rashid Siddiqui, a survivor of the shell that led to as well as hence many deaths. This trouble organization human relationship includes a storey map which visualizes the road of Rashid's pilgrimage, the place of his tent, the road he took to the Kaaba as well as the site of the crush.

As yous scroll through the Times' How One of the Deadliest Hajj Accidents Unfolded the map zooms inward as well as pans to highlight diverse locations inward Rashid's journey. The map itself consists of an aerial thought of Mecca, overlaid amongst house labels as well as colored polygons showing where pilgrims from unlike parts of the footing camp. The map attempts to explicate around of the events on the footing which led to the tragic crush, well-nigh the intersection of Street 204 as well as Street 223, which caused as well as hence many deaths.