New Mapping The 2015 Hajj Crush


During final year's Hajj hundreds of pilgrims were crushed to cash inwards one's chips inwards Mecca. The Hajj is the largest annual gathering of people inwards the world. The large growth inwards pilgrim numbers over the final 2 decades has resulted inwards a issue of tragic accidents together with crushes which bring resulted from the overcrowding.

The New York Times has published an interactive trouble concern human relationship of final year's tragic events, told from the perspective of Rashid Siddiqui, a survivor of the musical rhythm out that led to then many deaths. This trouble concern human relationship includes a storey map which visualizes the road of Rashid's pilgrimage, the place of his tent, the road he took to the Kaaba together with the site of the crush.

As you lot scroll through the Times' How One of the Deadliest Hajj Accidents Unfolded the map zooms inwards together with pans to highlight diverse locations inwards Rashid's journey. The map itself consists of an aerial persuasion of Mecca, overlaid amongst house labels together with colored polygons showing where pilgrims from unlike parts of the earth camp. The map attempts to explicate or then of the events on the solid pose down which led to the tragic crush, most the intersection of Street 204 together with Street 223, which caused then many deaths.
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