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A visualization of road orientations on an interactive map

Road Orientations Map

A visualization of road orientations for the current map view. Explore the map to see the chart for your city!

Divides 360° into 64 bins and accumulates lengths of road segments with corresponding orientations, then plots the distribution as a polar chart. Two-way roads are counted for both directions.

Check out my blog post about how it was made.

Built by Vladimir Agafonkin. Inspired by the works of Seth Kadish and Geoff Boeing.