Where are the dullest and most straight stretches of road?

Posted on 28-06-2015 at 18:17 by Dizono – 43 Comments”

In America, obivously, but in the winding roads strewn Europe, it appears one country is negative to jump…

Roy McCann would make you a nerd could call it, but it was the kind of nerd where we at Autoblog love. On the basis of the open source maps from OpenStreetMap, he developed a computational model that can calculate how straight a road is. Roy’s algorithm takes from every mapped road in both the start – and endpoint, and looks into what extent the actual distance from point to point is different from the distance as the crow flies. The greater the deviation, the bochtiger the road.

McCann drew a grid of squares on on our our globe earth and leaves with crayons to see what percentage of the roads within a square to the right or almost right. Not entirely unexpected, clearly America is pretty straight roads. Yet we do it in the Netherlands is not much better, and that is also Roy McCann noticed.

He wonders if it has to do with the flat of the Netherlands, or that there may be somewhere an error in the data. He is obviously never in the residential bestrooide visited the Netherlands, where we got nothing should have curves, but all as right and tight as possible.

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