Street orientations towards church steeples

[cantece]

trafficstars

Great map. I love it. In Europe a lot of roads are oriented towards the steeples of churches that are seen from far across the country. (how far can a human see a 50m steeple in free horizon?). Is it possible to show on a map the streets converging toward the nearest churches?

[Eneroth3]

This would be interesting. Instead of grouping streets by cardinal direction they could be grouped by the angle to the church/cathedral, according to a polar coordinate system instead of a orthogonal one.

The problem is probably finding the church. Lots of towns have had tons of smaller churches that is not the center of the street network. There can also be newer ones that are more prominent today than the one in the original location. Training an AI to identify the church? Nah. Perhaps it could simply be based on the center of the view, and you manually center it on the church yourself? This would also allow for centering on other places, e.g. a start hub (or whatever they are called) in Paris or Capital Hill, Canberra, Australia.