Today I was going to post a lot of other street orientation visualizations for global cities that accept been posted to the Data is Beautiful subreddit over the end few days. But at nowadays I don't postulate to because you lot tin create your ain street orientation orbit rose for whatever place inward the basis amongst the Streets Orientations Mapbox map.
Visit whatever place on the basis on the Streets Orientations Mapbox map together with you lot tin sentiment a orbit rose showing the street orientation inward the electrical flow map view. Instantly! Want a street orientation visualization of Istanbul? Then merely midpoint the map on Istanbul together with you accept one. All roads Pb to Rome, right. But where produce Roman roads lead? Find out amongst this map showing the street orientations of the Italian capital.
Obviously the primary payoff of this Street Orientations map is that you lot tin directly create your ain street orientation roses for whatever town, metropolis or hamlet anywhere inward the world. However, to a greater extent than or less other keen payoff is that you lot are besides able to compare the completed street orientation rose amongst the map itself. One of the close interesting things for me inward looking at these visualizations is exploring why the street orientations inward surely cities (like New York inward the movie above) veer from the telephone commutation directions of the orbit (north-south, west-east). Having the map together with the orientation orbit rose side-by-side allows you lot to run across which geographical or natural features powerfulness play a percentage in the directions of a city's street orientations.
The Street Orientations Mapbox map was made past times Mapbox employee together with Leaflet.js creator Vladimir Agafonkin. You tin explore the code behind the map on the Street Orientations GitHub page. You tin besides larn how the map was made inward merely lxxx lines of code on the Mapbox Blog (in item you lot powerfulness endure interested inward the 2 Mapbox libraries the map uses - cheap-ruler & lineclip).
If you lot nonetheless insist on exploring create made street orientation visualizations together with therefore cheque out:
Comparing City Street Orientations - Geoff Boeing's master copy visualization of American cities
Street Orientations Russia - a neat serial of street orientation roses for Russian cities amongst accompanying route maps
UK Cities
Indian Cities
German Cities
Israel
France
Netherlands
Canada
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