Mapping Toronto Traffic

The Toronto Star has mapped the book of vehicle together with pedestrian traffic at intersections throughout Toronto. Using information from the City of Toronto Transportation Services the map shows pedestrian together with vehicle traffic over 24 hours (the information for each intersection was captured betwixt 1999 together with 2012).

The Toronto Intersections map consists of 3 original layers. H5N1 minimalist street map layer shows alone the city's roads using sparse white lines. Omitting the route names from the map agency that The Star is relying on users existence able to recognize the city's roads purely from the street pattern. This is a reasonable supposition to brand when the paper's readers are local citizens. You tin too mouse-over the markers on the map to persuasion the names of the intersecting roads.

The minimalist manner of street map layer agency that the vehicle together with pedestrian traffic information layers clearly stand upwards out on the map. The scale of the round out markers on the map stand upwards for the book of traffic at the marked intersection. Click on a marking together with you lot tin persuasion both the vehicle together with pedestrian numbers recorded at the selected intersection.