Maps Mania: Rat-City, Massachusetts


map of Boston showing locations of rat sightings

A brand new interactive map of Boston appears to point that Beantown has turn out to be Rat-town. Rats! Boston exhibits rat sightings across the Massachusetts metropolis made by involved residents.

Self-appointed Rat Czar Viviano Cantu is utilizing 311 studies to map all of the latest sightings of rats round Boston. The sightings are taken from non-emergency 311 calls to town. The Rats! Boston map additionally exhibits the places of different critters. It would not simply visualize the places of rat studies to town. It additionally tracks 311 sightings of different animals in Boston. For instance on Arlington Road somebody appears to have noticed a race between a hare and a tortoise.

map of Arlington with a rabbit and turtle markers

It seems that this is not an city re-enactment of Aesop’s well-known Fable, however is as a substitute two separate studies of a pet turtle noticed within the park and a lifeless rabbit discovered on Arlington Road. In reality quite a lot of the studies to Rats! Boston concern lifeless animals. On first viewing the map I used to be intrigued why there have been so many studies of pigeon sightings – which is unquestionably not that a lot of a uncommon incidence to necessitate a name to the native authorities. Apparently these are all studies of lifeless birds that residents need town to take away.

The legislation of unintended penalties does recommend that making a map of 311 studies is just not at all times a good suggestion. For instance Jennifer Wong’s map (Human) Wasteland, which tracked 311 calls in San Francisco of ‘human waste or urine’ shortly grew to become a reference name for loony right-wingers of their irrational hatred of San Francisco. Jennifer’s map was created to spotlight the problem of homelessness in San Francisco. Sadly for a lot of on the suitable a priority for the plight of the homeless falls a good distance under their hatred of liberals. 

It will be a disgrace if Viviano Cantu’s map fell to an identical plight, for instance by some fool re-naming Boston ‘Rat-City, Massachusetts’.



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