This Beautiful Map

I recollect I'm inwards beloved amongst this map of San Francisco. Every fourth dimension I run across its rainbow colored streets I perish all weak at the knees.

Crayon the Grids is a serial of maps inwards which the streets get got been colored based on their orientation. The results, I recollect yous volition handgrip 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 purpose 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 inwards a like mod-90° vector space), amongst rolloffs for outlying roads together with territory".

To survive honest I didn't get got 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 inwards American together with European cities. These static maps amongst accompanying rose diagrams are a keen visualization of urban route patterns. They are peculiarly illuminating inwards illustrating the differences betwixt the planned grid-patterns of American cities together with the to a greater extent than organic sprawl flora inwards European cities.


VeloViewer has besides released an interactive map that allows yous to stance the route orientation for whatever district or metropolis inwards the world. Using the map yous tin zoom inwards on whatever surface area of the globe together with a rose diagram displays the route orientation distribution of the electrical flow map bounds.

The map uses the underlying information for roads inwards OpenStreetMap to calculate the route administration patterns on the fly. This agency that yous tin movement the map closed to together with zoom inwards or out on whatever place together with the rose diagram volition update to present the route administration distribution inside the electrical flow map view.