{"id":1787023,"date":"2019-01-20T18:25:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T23:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1787023"},"modified":"2019-01-20T18:25:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T23:25:28","slug":"the-washington-post-maps-the-u-s-mexico-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/01\/the-washington-post-maps-the-u-s-mexico-border\/","title":{"rendered":"The Washington Post Maps the U.S.-Mexico Border"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The print edition of today’s Washington Post<\/em> maps the fences and walls along the U.S.-Mexico border<\/a>. The online version<\/a>, which I seem to have missed when it was posted in October, offers a much more detailed look: it’s an interactive, scrollable map that offers a flyover view of the border, fenced and unfenced, as it passes through farms, ranches, towns and impossibly rugged terrain between the Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The print edition of today’s Washington Post maps the fences and walls along the U.S.-Mexico border. The online version, which I seem to have missed when it was posted in October, offers a much more… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[330,114],"tags":[1327,902,158],"class_list":["post-1787023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-politics","category-web-mapping","tag-borders","tag-mexico","tag-usa","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1836235,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/01\/google-maps-to-use-gulf-of-america-others-not-so-much\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787023,"position":0},"title":"Google Maps to Use ‘Gulf of America’–Others Not So Much","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"28 January 2025","format":"link","excerpt":"Lots of news coverage about Google\u2019s announcement that it will follow Trump\u2019s lead and change Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America (and Denali to Mount McKinley) on Google Maps once the GNIS database has been updated\u2014at least when showing it to American users. 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