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source: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/15uz539/city_street_network_orientation/


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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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[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

chicago has a great lake to the east so. i dunno.

[-] electrorocket@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but the measurement is over total length of the roads, not the center of downtown. Every road runs the same distance in each direction, whether or not it's a one way road.

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