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City street network orientation (i.ibb.co)
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source: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/15uz539/city_street_network_orientation/

From the post:

Urban spatial order: street network orientation, configuration, and entropy

By: Geoff Boeing

This study examines street network orientation, configuration, and entropy in 100 cities around the world using OpenStreetMap data and OSMnx.

See full paper: https://appliednetsci.springeropen.com/articles/10.1007/s41109-019-0189-1

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[–] AcesFullOfKings@lemmy.world 66 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I assume it's unintentional that this is so low resolution that the city names are barely readable

edit: the original image, before it was rehosted with the shit compressed out of it, is much higher res and is actually readable.

[–] Zoboomafoo@yiffit.net 2 points 2 years ago

I thought this was useless until I spotted my current city of Detroit, it matches well enough