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On & Off the street grid: relative distributions of road orientations

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Seth Kadish compares the street grids of two dozen urban centers across the United States and Europe.  The tallest bar indicates the direction that more roads point to than any other direction.

On & Off the street grid: relative distributions of road orientations

Relative distributions of road orientations for Boston

Relative distributions of road orientations for Chicago

Relative distributions of road orientations for Manhattan

Relative distributions of road orientations for San Francisco

Relative distributions of road orientations for London, Berlin, Paris and Madrid

Data: census.gov
Script for azimuth calculation: ian-ko.com
Via vizual-statistix.tumblr.com

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