Donald Trump wants to build a 2,000 mile wall betwixt United Mexican States too the USA. This American Life has been wondering nigh the number that edge walls convey on the lives of the people who alive close them. In The Walls This American Life has compiled a number of stories from some the world. In these stories This American Life correspondents watch too speak to individuals too communities living inwards the shadows of walls.
The Walls is accompanied yesteryear an interactive map which shows the locations featured inwards all the podcast stories. This map allows you lot to zoom-in on the diverse locations too persuasion the edge walls (using Mapbox GL's extruded polygons to visualize the edge walls). Each place includes aerial imagery too and a real curt description of the edge wall.
If you lot are having difficulty envisioning only how far big Trump's proposed wall would hold out too thus you lot tin sack role the Berliner Morgenpost's interactive map. The Trump Wall Comparison Map allows you lot to overlay an outline of Trump's proposed edge wall betwixt the USA too United Mexican States on whatever other place on Earth. You tin sack besides larn a adept feel of the scale of structure needed to build Trump's wall inwards a video from the Intercept. The Intercept downloaded too stitched together 200,000 satellite images to work a huge strip map of the U.S.-Mexican border. You tin sack persuasion this strip map inwards Visualizing the U.S.-Mexico Border, a curt video which pans along the whole border.
