A Rubber Walk Inwards La
The Los Angeles Times has mapped over one-half a 1 K m pedestrian accidents inwards L.A. County inwards fellowship to visualize the county's close unsafe intersections. Walking inwards LA uses information from the California Highway Patrol to supply a heatmap of the close unsafe intersections for pedestrians.
The heatmap highlights to a greater extent than than 800 intersections which convey a higher charge per unit of measurement of pedestrian injury or boot the bucket than the county averages. The 817 unsafe intersections are likewise available to move viewed inwards listing form.
Map developers volition move interested inwards this How We Did It article on how the map was created. The article explains how the information was collected, processed as well as mapped. The heatmap information was added to the map tiles using TileMill, which is an economical agency to visualize a large sum of information on an interactive map.
The map uses the Leaflet.label plugin to add together labels to or thence of the close unsafe intersections. The labels are as well as thence connected to the highlighted locations using a custom pointer, created past times writing a small-scale extension to L.Path (the JavaScript is provided inwards the article if you lot desire to re-create this idea).
The LA Times article points out that many of the close unsafe intersections are inwards or thence of the densest neighborhoods. This doesn't hateful that the map should move normalized past times the sum of pedestrian traffic. If you lot wanted to trim the pose out of pedestrian accidents equally much equally possible it would brand feel to essay as well as growth the security at the intersections which are responsible for the close accidents whether or non they convey the close human foot traffic.
However it is interesting to compare the LA Times map of the close unsafe intersections alongside Eric Fischer's Daily Pedestrian Extrapolation map. This map shows intersection pedestrian counts (extrapolated to daily totals). The ii maps create appear to demo that many of the close unsafe intersections inwards LA are the intersections alongside a high human foot traffic, especially inwards the Downtown area.
