Maps of Every Single Street in Any City
Andrei Kashcha’s City Roads tool will draw you a map of just the roads in any city around the world. I’m in Saigon right now, so I did that one first:
And this is Paris:
I love that the whitespace reveals more of a city than just roads — you can also see rivers, parks, train lines, stadiums, and airports.
See also Ben Fry’s All Streets project and Nelson Minar’s map of all the rivers in the US.
Updatecompiled a list of similar services that create artistic maps. The article is in Spanish but Google Translate works well on it.
Javier Pastor
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