Bending the Chart to Fit the Road

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Mapping Collision Density Along the A1 More than 350 years ago, cartographer John Ogilby transformed the way travellers navigated Britain. His famous strip maps turned the nation’s principal highways into continuous journeys on the page, allowing travellers to follow routes such as the Great North Road stage by stage across the country. Today’s A1 follows much of that same historic Maps Mania… more →
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Road Orientations Map

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Road Orientations Map The topic for day 8 of the #30DayMapChallenge is Urban. For this challenge I decided to go old-school and convert Vladimir Agafonkin’s original Road Orientations from Mapbox to Maplibre. The original code analyzes street orientations and visualizes them as a polar histogram. I’ve just adapted Vladimir’s approach to work with MapLibre GL JS.What the Map ShowsThe Maps Mania… more →
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The US Road Fatality Map

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Last week I posted a link to the NYC Congestion Zone Live Crash Tracker, an interactive map of car crashes in New York City. If you live outside of New York then you might prefer Roadway Report instead, which is a visualization of American roadway fatalities in the 21st Century.The Roadway Report map uses road traffic accident data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Maps Mania… more →
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Thursday Road Conditions; Maps and Apps: MO-KS-OK-AR; Continually Updating Cancellations and Closings – KSNF/KODE – FourStatesHomepage.com

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Thursday Road Conditions; Maps and Apps: MO-KS-OK-AR; Continually Updating Cancellations and Closings  KSNF/KODE – FourStatesHomepage.com “map app” – Google News… more →
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Best road trip planner apps: 5 apps to map out your adventure – TechRadar

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TechRadar Best road trip planner apps: 5 apps to map out your adventureTechRadarRegardless of your destination, planning your trip is an integral part of the adventure. Otherwise, you'll spend way more than you need to and, chances are, you won't get to see everything on your wishlist. We live in a golden age of technology that we … map app – Google News… more →
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Central Florida road construction outpaces map apps – Orlando Sentinel

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Orlando Sentinel Central Florida road construction outpaces map appsOrlando SentinelDo you ever worry whether you can trust your phone's map app, or if it is more bewildered than you are? Amid Central Florida's blitz of highway construction, such fears aren't off base. For example, a recently opened, 5-mile section of the Wekiva … map app – Google News… more →
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