Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting has been collecting information on the US-Mexico edge for a break of years. They accept spent a long fourth dimension mapping the existing edge ground using satellite imagery together with authorities PDF maps of the border.
From this information Reveal has discovered that to a greater extent than or less 700 miles of the 1,954 mile long U.S.-Mexico edge is already fenced. Trump's novel wall volition hence postulate to survive at to the lowest degree 1,300 miles long. That's a lot of Chinese steel. You tin plow over the sack explore Reveal's come about their The Wall interactive map. The map shows the electrical flow ground together with shows where it is a 'vehicular' together with where it is a 'pedestrian' fence. The map too shows where no ground currently exists.
You tin plow over the sack larn a adept feel of the scale of structure needed to build Trump's novel wall inwards a video from the Intercept. The Intercept downloaded together with stitched together 200,000 satellite images to exercise a huge strip map of the U.S.-Mexican border. You tin plow over the sack stance this strip map inwards Visualizing the U.S.-Mexico Border, a curt video which pans along the whole border.
Another interactive map of Trump's proposed wall too exists. Doug McCune has used Mapbox GL to exercise a 3d map of Trump's wall. The wall on this map is colored inwards a patriotic red, white together with blue. However the scale of the wall is in all probability a piffling out (it appears to survive at to the lowest degree 10 miles high on Doug's map).
From Donald Trump's 'detailed' structure plans nosotros know that the Trump Wall volition survive upward to xv meters high, made of concrete together with steel (but too perhaps fencing) together with volition survive 1,954 miles long. If yous are having difficulty envisioning simply how far 1,954 miles is together with so yous tin plow over the sack purpose the Berliner Morgenpost's interactive map. The Trump Wall Comparison Map allows yous to overlay an outline of Trump's proposed edge wall betwixt the USA together with United Mexican States on whatever place on Earth.
If yous desire to exercise your ain Trump Wall map together with so yous tin plow over the sack larn Reveal's data for the US-Mexico edge ground on Github. You tin plow over the sack read to a greater extent than nearly how this information was collected together with mapped inwards the Reveal article The Wall: Building a continuous US-Mexico barrier would survive a tall order.
