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

Instructions to deploy:

• 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 and Google's Closure Compiler
• make all

The highways are stored in 3 fusion tables:

• Mariguana
• Poppy
• Meth

Made with Protovis, R, CartoDB, Fusion Tables, Color Brewer and Google Directions

Author: Diego Valle-Jones