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Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Leaflet Runs The Boston Marathon


The Boston Globe has published an interesting photograph that uses the Leaflet mapping platform to render an interactive graphic of survivors of the bombing of the Boston Marathon.

One twelvemonth later the tragic bomb explosion at the Boston Marathon, The Boston Globe invited survivors, police, firefighters, EMTs, doctors, nurses together with runners dorsum to the complete draw on Boylston Street to seat for a grouping photo.

The resulting One Year, One City photograph is a powerful testimony to the resilience of the people of Boston. By using the Leaflet mapping platform the Boston Globe has created an interactive photograph which y'all tin lav pan to a greater extent than or less together with inwards which y'all tin lav zoom inwards on individuals inwards the picture. You tin lav fifty-fifty click on the people inwards the photograph to larn a picayune to a greater extent than almost their sense during concluding year's tragic events.


NECN.com has likewise used the Leaflet platform to exercise a floor map of the Boston Marathon. The map shows the road of the Boston Marathon together with includes stories together with accounts from the individuals, businesses together with schools that are located along the marathon's route.

The One Year Stronger map tin lav live on navigated past times using the numbers along the bottom of the map. Click on a issue together with the map pans to a place along the road together with loads photos, videos together with text that say the stories of those who alive together with run along the road of the Boston Marathon.