São Paulo based information visualization companionship MedidaSP has released an interactive map which colors all of Brasil's streets based on whether they accept manful someone or woman someone names. The Gender of (almost) All the Streets of Brazil is an impressive information visualization exposing what is evidently a thoroughly sexist approach to naming roads inwards Brazil.
All streets named for men are colored bluish on the map together with all the streets named for women are colored red. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 bar plot running downwards the left-hand side of the map visualizes the per centum of all the roads inwards the electrical flow map thought named for men, all those named for women, together with those without a gendered place-name. In São Paulo lonely of the 70,000 streets inwards the urban meat exclusively 5,000 accept woman someone names, land 27,500 accept been named for men.You tin give the sack motility the map to whatever town or urban meat inwards Brazil to explore how many roads accept been named for men together with for women inwards the selected area.
You tin give the sack notice out to a greater extent than well-nigh how the map was made together with how the manful someone together with woman someone street names were extracted from OpenStreetMap on the map's GitHub page.
Also See
Street Names inwards Vienna - a map of all streets named for men together with women inwards Vienna
Female versus Male Street Names - a map of manful someone & woman someone named streets inwards a few global cities
Las Calles de las Mujeres - an interactive map which shows all streets named for men together with women inwards Asuncion, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Cochabamba, Lima together with Montevideo. You tin give the sack read to a greater extent than well-nigh this projection (in Spanish) at Geochicas.
