Diplomats from countries merely about the globe were inwards PRC over the weekend. Most of them were desperate to claim a portion of the billions of dollars PRC plans to invest inwards its Belt too Road projects. China's ambitious One Belt, One Road strategy plans to connect Asia, the Middle East, Europe too Africa amongst a huge carry too crude oil & gas pipeline network.
An interactive map on Fortune magazine's website shows some of the rail, crude oil & gas pipelines too maritime connections that PRC has already constructed or plans to build. In trial this is merely a static map which has been made interactive using Leaflet.js. However the map does exhibit the scale of China's ambitious infrastructure plans. It too has a few markers where Fortune get got provided a fleck to a greater extent than exceptional on some of the to a greater extent than interesting projects nether development.
The Fortune map was created using data from the Mercator Institute for PRC Studies. The Mercator Institute''s ain map provides a to a greater extent than detailed overview of China's Planned Global Infrastructure Network. The map shows built too planned track lines, crude oil & gas pipelines too ports amongst Chinese engagements.
In One Belt, One Road the Financial Times too explores some of the construction projects beingness created past times PRC to carry people too goods merely about the world.
The map uses the Mapbox GL even out map template to scroll too pan a map of the part to exhibit some of the diverse railway lines, roads too gas pipelines that get got already been constructed or are inwards the procedure of beingness built. These construction projects include gas pipelines betwixt PRC too Central Asia, the PRC to Islamic Republic of Pakistan highway too novel high speed railways throughout the region.
Back inwards 2013 the New York Times created its ain even out map template to accept yous on a journeying along ane of China's newly constructed railway lines, next the route of the erstwhile Silk Road.
Riding the New Silk Road follows the modern prepare route using a vertical scrolling map. The map is illustrated amongst photos too videos from ane department of the modern route. As yous scroll downwards the page yous go S along a strip map of the route. Animated polylines connect of import locations on the route to the illustrative media inwards the map sidebar.
