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City street network orientation (i.ibb.co)

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From the post:

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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's histograms, according to the paper:

Fig. 5 Polar histograms from Fig. 4, resorted by descending φ from most to least grid-like (equivalent to least to greatest entropy)

Fig. 4 Polar histograms of 100 world cities’ street orientations, sorted alphabetically corresponding with Table 1

(A histogram shows how much there is of each kind, so here it's how much road there is per direction.)