I retrieve I'm inward dear alongside this map of San Francisco. Every fourth dimension I meet its rainbow colored streets I teach all weak at the knees.
Crayon the Grids is a serial of maps inward which the streets conduct keep been colored based on their orientation. The results, I retrieve y'all volition grip are absolutely stunning. This serial of gorgeous visualizations includes maps of San Francisco, Tokyo, New York, Chicago, London, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Paris, Berlin together with Boston.
There is besides a detailed explanation of how the maps were made,
"... to homecoming each betoken on the map, nosotros role Proximatic, my custom high-performance k-NN engine, to calculate the length-weighted average of the colors assigned to the nearest 500 meters of street, keying homecoming weight to the local flat of parallelism/orthogonality (derived inward a like mod-90° vector space), alongside rolloffs for outlying roads together with territory".
To hold upwards honest I didn't accept much of that explanation in. I but stared, drooling at the map together with replied, 'You're pretty'.
Crayon the Grids reminded me of some visualizations by Visual Statistix, comparison the route orientation patterns inward American together with European cities. These static maps alongside accompanying rose diagrams are a corking visualization of urban route patterns. They are specially illuminating inward illustrating the differences betwixt the planned grid-patterns of American cities together with the to a greater extent than organic sprawl works life inward European cities.
VeloViewer has besides released an interactive map that allows y'all to thought the route orientation for whatever district or urban kernel inward the world. Using the map y'all tin zoom inward on whatever expanse of the earth together with a rose diagram displays the route orientation distribution of the electrical current map bounds.
The map uses the underlying information for roads inward OpenStreetMap to calculate the route administration patterns on the fly. This agency that y'all tin motion the map roughly together with zoom inward or out on whatever place together with the rose diagram volition update to demonstrate the route administration distribution inside the electrical current map view.
