Map: Why you get lost in Detroit

Andrei Kashcha developed an app that pulls all street data from Open Street Map and color codes it by the cardinal direction orientation of the roadway.

The resulting map presents a beautiful reminder that Detroit has a diverging urban planning history from spoke streets (based on trails of indigenous peoples?), street grid based on river access and ribbon farms, to the modern Jeffersonian grid.

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