{"id":2731,"date":"2010-06-02T22:22:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T05:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=2731"},"modified":"2010-06-02T22:22:43","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T05:22:43","slug":"bp-caused-oilspill-map-overlay-lets-users-relate-to-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2010\/06\/02\/bp-caused-oilspill-map-overlay-lets-users-relate-to-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"BP-caused oilspill: map overlay lets users relate to scale"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think of Canada as a pretty big place. It’s the geography, to be sure, but it must also be because there are so few people here. Take Vancouver Island<\/a>: my current city, Victoria<\/a>, hangs on its southernmost tip. We’ve got a few people here (350,000 in the Capital Regional District<\/a>), and a few more “up island” toward the Cowichan Valley<\/a> and Nanaimo<\/a>. But overall, Vancouver Island seems like a vast wilderness. It’s possible to live here for decades without ever getting into its wild reaches.<\/p>\n

Now take a look at this graphic overlay<\/a> of the BP-caused oilspill<\/a> in the Gulf of Mexico<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The spill covers all<\/em> of Southern Vancouver Island, but that’s just a bit of it (too bad I can’t rotate the spill – it would slick most of the island): It covers Vancouver, Whistler, all of the Lower Mainland all the way to Chiliwack; it swamps the Gulf<\/a> and the San Juan Islands<\/a>, a huge chunk of the Georgia Strait<\/a>, all of the Juan de Fuca Strait<\/a>, and the entire southwestern coast of the island, including Tofino<\/a> and the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve<\/a>. Oh, and the Olympic Mountains<\/a> are covered, too.<\/p>\n

Try out the map overlay for your region<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around the scale of it (see previous<\/a> tweets<\/a> about scope, despoliation in Nigeria<\/a>, and how the current spill is scandalous<\/a> but also not news …sadly).<\/p>\n

And it’s not over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think of Canada as a pretty big place. It’s the geography, to be sure, but it must also be because there are so few people here. Take Vancouver Island: my current city, Victoria, hangs on its southernmost tip. We’ve got a few people here (350,000 in the Capital Regional District), and a few more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2168,1242,1897],"tags":[15991,3196,15581],"class_list":["post-2731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green","category-just_so","category-scandal","tag-bp","tag-disaster","tag-oilspill"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2731"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2741,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731\/revisions\/2741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}