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bergen flaneur

experimental cartography using Openstreetmap data.

 

Influenced by the concept of the Flaneur, someone who wanders a city (in this case, Bergen in Norway) at random, deciding on their next move using chance, or without a specific destination in mind.

 

A connected network is created from OpenStreetMap data, and hundreds of thousands of random journeys are made through the network by software agents following very simple rules:-

 

- move to a neighbouring node

- don't backtrack

- stop at a dead-end

- stop if you've visited a node for a second time

- repeat

 

The number of times each route is covered is shown using colour; red are the roads most travelled, blue the least travelled.

 

Originally I thought this might show up major arteries, but it doesn't seem to work that way...

 

Data Copyright OpenStreetMap and contributors, CC-BY-SA.

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