Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting has been collecting information on the US-Mexico edge for a let out of years. They accept spent a long fourth dimension mapping the existing edge struggle using satellite imagery as well as regime PDF maps of the border.
From this information Reveal has discovered that some 700 miles of the 1,954 mile long U.S.-Mexico edge is already fenced. Trump's novel wall volition thence require to endure at to the lowest degree 1,300 miles long. That's a lot of Chinese steel. You tin explore Reveal's rank off their The Wall interactive map. The map shows the electrical current struggle as well as shows where it is a 'vehicular' as well as where it is a 'pedestrian' fence. The map too shows where no struggle currently exists.
You tin larn a proficient feel of the scale of structure needed to build Trump's novel wall inwards a video from the Intercept. The Intercept downloaded as well as stitched together 200,000 satellite images to exercise a huge strip map of the U.S.-Mexican border. You tin sentiment 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 as well as blue. However the scale of the wall is in all probability a piffling out (it appears to endure 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 endure upwards to fifteen meters high, made of concrete as well as steel (but too perchance fencing) as well as volition endure 1,954 miles long. If you lot are having difficulty envisioning only how far 1,954 miles is as well as so you lot tin 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 as well as United Mexican States on whatever place on Earth.
If you lot desire to exercise your ain Trump Wall map as well as so you lot tin larn Reveal's data for the US-Mexico edge struggle on Github. You tin read to a greater extent than close how this information was collected as well as mapped inwards the Reveal article The Wall: Building a continuous US-Mexico barrier would endure a tall order.
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