Remembering Jfk

Slate has mapped over 400 streets, parks, as well as schools named later John F. Kennedy unopen to the world. Fifty years later the American president's assassination his cite lives on inward locations named inward his honor, non alone inward the USA precisely inward many other countries across the globe.

The Slate map uses the OpenStreetMap platform as well as used OSM information to notice points of involvement named 'Kennedy'. Only those locations that could last verified every bit existence named later JFK convey been added to the map.

Where the Streets Have Your Name is a corking application that yous tin operate to practise a Google Map showing all the places unopen to the basis that convey your name.

The app tin too last used to practise a trivial query into the worldwide reputation of American presidents. If yous larn inward Kennedy as well as Nixon into the app yous larn 2 real dissimilar maps.





Looking at non-English speaking countries is peculiarly informative. It is less probable that geographical locations inward these countries are named later dissimilar Kennedys or Nixons.

The results present that continental Europe has commemorated the life of Kennedy past times naming numerous places later the president. For some argue Europe has non been as well as thence keen to cite streets as well as squares later Richard Nixon.

In fact yous convey to become dorsum to George Washington to notice some other American president who has been commemorated inward house names exterior of the U.S. to quite the same marker every bit JFK.