Interactive Map of the Mexican Drug War
To view the finished maps go to:
English = http://www.diegovalle.net/drug-war-map.html Spanish = http://www.diegovalle.net/mapa-guerra-narco.html
Getting Started:
- change the location of your server (where you've placed shorten.php) for shortening links in the file shortner.js
- modify shorten.php to include your free bit.ly api key and username
- Modify the makefile to include the locations of Yahoo's YUI Compressor
- Make sure you have node.js and have hogan installed ("npm install hogan.js")
- make all or make debug will create the files in the gh-pages sub directory
The highways are stored in 3 fusion tables:
Made with Protovis, R, CartoDB, Fusion Tables, Color Brewer, hogan.js and Google Directions
Author: Diego Valle-Jones