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Using open street map data creates great opportunities to visualise the street and block patterns for cities. Here are some terrific examples from Geoff Boeing at UC Berkeley.
You can tell A LOT about a city by its street & block pattern. Love these figureground drawings from @gboeing. Read: https://t.co/cnB0plkDtU pic.twitter.com/4wlg0ZTnEG
— Brent Toderian (@BrentToderian) September 3, 2017
Paris seems very Cartesian, Tunis looks like it grew organically and New York looks to be methodically calculated.
— Maria Rantanen (@HaneyInkslinger) September 3, 2017
OSMnx article now published: download and analyze street networks anywhere in the world w/ @OpenStreetMap + #Pythonhttps://t.co/lGfR32AJET pic.twitter.com/c4fn89vA0h
— Geoff Boeing (@gboeing) July 10, 2017
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