Venice Interactive Acqua Alta Map
 

The August 2009 issue of National Geographic Magazine has an article on "Vanishing Venice." The most interesting part of the article is the maps showing (1) buildings in danger and (2) areas susceptible to acqua alta. Here is a link to the map showing the buildings in danger.



http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/20...nice-animation



This is an "interactive map" On the right side of the page there is a scale with a yellow arrow. If you put your cursor on top of the yellow arrow on the left side of the scale and move it up and down you can see how often parts of Venezia will flood. There is a horizontal line in the middle of the scale. Above that it shows how often the area will flood in years. Below the line is how often in a year. In other words, the worst part of town is toward the bottom of the scale. Note that San Marco floods many times per year but Fondamente Nuove might not flood in 150 years.

This takes a bit of time to load, but is really worth it, IMO.

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I forgot to add a link to the actual article, "Vanishing Venice", in the National Geographic, in case you are interested.

The web page below is a link to the article on "Vanishing Venice"



http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/20...ce/newman-text

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Did no one find this map interesting? I think it is neat, so I'm topping in case it dropped off the page before some of those who love Venice got to see it.

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Nuke, thanks. We stayed in Calle Lunga, San Barnaba last Christmas, and it was fun to watch the street flood courtesy of the National Geographic.

Cheers and Thanks

Peter

Really interesting article. And the interactive map was quite informative. Thanks for the link

Hello Nuke, very intersting article and bittersweet as I have heard so many of the same comments made by my many friends that live in the Region of Veneto, and some that use to live in Venice or whose relatives did.

I didn't have any luck accessing the interactive map however. I will try again tomorrow.

LoveItaly,

Sorry you can't bring the map up. I have a pretty fast machine, and it takes a loooooong while for mine to load. When you click on the link you get the National Geographic site page come up, with a big blank in the middle. Go have a cup of coffee, and it will come up to fill the blank after awhile --- I hope.

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Hello nuke..yes that is all I saw, a big blank.

I will follow your instructions tomorrow. I would so like to see the map, thank you!

nukesafe, thank you for the visual, I am considering visiting this fall. Helpful to see how flooding affects the city.

Thanks for posting this, nukesafe. My husband worked for the USGS and spent years studying the Louisiana wetlands. He was able to visit the acqua alta government office in Venice several times to look at their data. I went with him and found it all very interesting.

Got loaded pretty fast for me, both in IE and Mozilla, using a regular laptop.