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Lonely Planet Travel Information for any Holiday Destination. Climate - Weather - Extreme. NWS Space Weather Prediction Center. Countries. Cases - Health - Xinhua | English.news.cn. Mapping Mexico's drug war. Diego Valle-Jones has created a powerful interactive map of the ongoing drug war in Mexico. The interactive map lets you compare homicides and drug-related homicides, with the option to examine marijuana, opium, and drug-lab-related homicides. If you click on a bubble, you can see the number of murders over time, dating back to 2004. Important events are highlighted on that time line. You can also draw a shape on the map to look at a particular region.
Click to see the full interactive version of “Map of the Drug War in Mexico.” Valle-Jones writes: “To unclutter the map and following the lead of the paper Trafficking Networks and the Mexican Drug War by Melissa Dell, I decided to only show the optimal highways (according to my own data and Google Directions) to reach the US border ports from the municipalities with the highest drug plant eradication between 1994 and 2003 and the highest 2d density estimate of drug labs based on newspaper reports of seizures. More Visualizations: Sign Of The Times: Safety Maps Help You Plan For Catastrophe. Most of us live in places saturated with comms signals. We carry phones in our pockets and we’ve come to rely on them for coordinating our movements. As Clay Shirky points out, we’ve basically replaced planning with coordination. We don’t make plans, we say, "I’ll call you when I get there. " What happens when you can’t call?
Safety Maps is a service designed to help people make a plan for meeting up in the event of a emergency. When disaster strikes, communications networks are often knocked out of service or become saturated by people trying to get word of loved ones. Safety Maps is an initiative of Do projects, a flexible "platform for collaborative making" with a shifting roster of collaborators. [The Safety Maps site] The core of Safety Maps is simple: by following the instructions on the site, you can create a nice-looking map that shows a meeting point along with instructions or a personal message.
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