Square-Mile Street Network Visualization with python and Geoff Boeing's OSMNx
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OSMnx looks super great (I wish it was ruby but I don’t mind python of course)! Sounds like I should make a t-shirt from the 1 square mile of Gastown or east van right?
From geoff boeing’s Square-Mile Street Network Visualization:
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The heart of Allan Jacobs’ classic book on street-level urban form and design, Great Streets, features dozens of hand-drawn figure-ground diagrams in the style of Nolli maps. Each depicts one square mile of a city’s street network. Drawing these cities at the same scale provides a revealing spatial objectivity in visually comparing their street networks and urban forms. We can recreate these visualizations automatically with Python and the OSMnx package, which I developed as part of my dissertation. With OSMnx we can download a street network from OpenStreetMap for anywhere in the world in just one line of code. Here are the square-mile diagrams of Portland, San Francisco, Irvine, and Rome created and plotted automatically by OSMnx
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