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Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Visualizing Street Orientation



If you lot seem to ever survive traveling inward the same management as well as therefore it mightiness survive because you lot are. If you lot alive inward a large U.S. of A. metropolis as well as therefore you lot in all likelihood pass virtually of your fourth dimension locked inward the metropolis grid, traveling dorsum as well as forth inward the same quondam directions solar daytime later on day, your management of go ever determined past times the orientation of the city's streets.

You tin sack sentiment how your metropolis is orientated on Geoff Boeing's Comparing City Street Orientations
Geoff's post includes a expose of range rose visualizations showing the street orientation patterns of 25 major American cities. This serial of range roses reveals that nearly all U.S. of A. cities convey stiff grid systems. The alone exceptions to the dominion look to survive Boston as well as Charlotte.


H5N1 few years agone Visual Statistix too explored the route management patterns inward America. It too created like visualizations for a expose of European cities. These static maps amongst accompanying rose diagrams are a neat visualization of urban route patterns. They are specially illuminating inward illustrating the differences betwixt the planned grid-patterns of American cities as well as the to a greater extent than organic sprawl flora inward European cities.

VeloViewer were inspired past times Visual Statistix to too explore how dissimilar metropolis streets are orientated. Their weblog post Interactive Road Orientation Distributions – How Ordered is Your Town? includes examples of range route diagrams showing street orientations inward San Francisco, Austin as well as Sheffield (UK).

VeloViewer too created an interactive map which allowed you lot to practice a rose diagram for whatsoever place showing the street orientation inward the electrical flow map view. The post includes a link to the map - although unfortunately the map no longer appears to work.


Data Pointed has too been experimenting amongst how you lot tin sack visualize the orientation of metropolis streets. Data Pointed soundless eschewed the age-old range rose inward favor of coloring the streets based on their orientation. Crayon the Grids is a serial of maps inward which the color of private streets are determined past times the management that they are orientated. The results are pretty stunning.

This serial of gorgeous visualizations includes maps of San Francisco, Tokyo, New York, Chicago, London, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Paris, Berlin as well as Boston.