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corn haver posted:They're referring to intersections on thoroughfares disallowing left turns from the smaller intersecting road, forcing you to do a u-turn at the next intersection or at a designated turning location. Wait sorry you are allowed to do U turns at junctions in the US, and this is... considered safer?
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OwlFancier posted:Wait sorry you are allowed to do U turns at junctions in the US, and this is... considered safer? Generally only if there's a left turn signal, since it would mean there's no traffic coming in the other direction.
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OwlFancier posted:Wait sorry you are allowed to do U turns at junctions in the US, and this is... considered safer? what do you know about the US that suggests safety would be a consideration. to me it’s weird that you wouldn’t do a u turn at the intersection, unless you’re just popping them wherever if cops aren’t looking.
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And bear in mind that American suburban hell scapes like Charlotte are "cities" in the way a tangled box of Christmas lights are a spool
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Golbez posted:I once got lost in Charlotte for hours, before smart phones. It doesn't help that they have a street that famously intersects itself along with the the infamous intersection of Queens, Queens, Providence, and Providence. A a Brazilian I'm used to cities much like São Paulo, but this is another level completely. 
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Powered Descent posted:
I showed this to a friend who is taking UX design classes and he told me this diagram was shown on their first lecture.
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AnoHito posted:Generally only if there's a left turn signal, since it would mean there's no traffic coming in the other direction. It happens a lot with divided boulevards and highways, and in some places there's even a dedicated u-turn lane
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BuckT.Trend posted:That graph can't be right for Seattle. The grid takes two major jogs to follow the waterfront, at Yesler and again at Denny. I was very confused by Minneapolis for this reason too because the downtown grid is at a 45 degree angle due to the river, but I think downtown is a small enough area relative to the rest of the city that it only shows up as noise. Seattle might be similar if the city sprawls enough that the areas with grid changes are a small enough percentage of the total city area.
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blackmongoose posted:I was very confused by Minneapolis for this reason too because the downtown grid is at a 45 degree angle due to the river, but I think downtown is a small enough area relative to the rest of the city that it only shows up as noise. Seattle might be similar if the city sprawls enough that the areas with grid changes are a small enough percentage of the total city area. the diagonal streets of minneapolis show up on that chart, you just have to zoom in pretty far to see them. downtown streets and blocks are also a lot bigger and wider than the standard residential blocks, which probably pushes down the "miles of street per square mile of land" for downtown
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Hurt Whitey Maybe posted:what do you know about the US that suggests safety would be a consideration. to me it’s weird that you wouldn’t do a u turn at the intersection, unless you’re just popping them wherever if cops aren’t looking. 
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Apparently uturns at intersections is an American thing? Next you'll tell me we're the only ones who turn right on red.
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Golbez posted:Apparently uturns at intersections is an American thing? Next you'll tell me we're the only ones who turn right on red. Next you'll tell me Philadelphians are the only ones who turn left on red
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You mean as in chaos in the streets, or the generally allowed rule of turning left on red from a one way to a one way?
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I mean you've got to get to your Santa target lessons at the cheesesteak factory and there's no fuckin cop around so why not
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American streets are wide as gently caress and even with the landships that are customary in that country, there is plenty of room to flip a U‐y in an intersection.
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U-turns are generally allowed at intersections unless there's a traffic light. E.g. this is fine:
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Powered Descent posted:
Jeff rocks.
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mobby_6kl posted:U-turns are generally allowed at intersections unless there's a traffic light. E.g. this is fine: I would have turned to the closest lane, but otherwise the same in Finland. I think the law just says to use "extraordinary caution" or something..
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Golbez posted:Apparently uturns at intersections is an American thing? Next you'll tell me we're the only ones who turn right on red. In the UK you are generally not allowed to do U turns anywhere other than at roundabouts. Which are fortunately fairly common but if not you have to go down a side road and do a three point turn.
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DarkHorse posted:
but on the other pretty flags 
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Yeah the other axis needs to be income per capita, otherwise it's pretty silly to visualize it this wayLetmebefrank posted:I would have turned to the closest lane, but otherwise the same in Finland. I think the law just says to use "extraordinary caution" or something.. Also apparently while the u-turn itself is fine, there's some disagreement about who has the right of way I this case. Here it's Car 1 because they are on a priority road, but in Germany it's Car 2 because the situation is identical to car 1 turning left from the road on the right (which isn't in this picture)
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I mean you've got to get to your Santa target lessons at the cheesesteak factory and there's no fuckin cop around so why not 
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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mobby_6kl posted:U-turns are generally allowed at intersections unless there's a traffic light. E.g. this is fine: gently caress driver 2 though, that rear end in a top hat doesn't have a clue how protected U-turns work 
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DACK FAYDEN posted:on the one hand there's no reason to use circle size for the same metric as one of your axes and the other axis being literal nothing X Axis for population size would be good. Or number of networks
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Letmebefrank posted:I would have turned to the closest lane, but otherwise the same in Finland. I think the law just says to use "extraordinary caution" or something.. Interestingly, in Sweden it would be mandatory to turn into the right-hand lane since that's the "base travel lane". (Except if the lanes are signposted to different destinations.)
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From the funny images thread: Broke my goddamn until I realised that, no, it's just stupid.
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This guy's doing non-Euclidean political compii: https://twitter.com/virgil_30/status/1270830645393195010 https://twitter.com/virgil_30/status/1270941198681858049 https://twitter.com/virgil_30/status/1271007289772855296 https://twitter.com/virgil_30/status/1271170013932793857 Lots more in the linked tweet thread!
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Lmao those are brilliant
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Megillah Gorilla posted:From the funny images thread: this honestly feels like that 'random variable R = r' thing where it makes a distinction between the set of values and an arbitrary value
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 Each band is a thousandth of world population. 
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Magnificent. So many different ways this is worse than useless.
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I actually like those two graphs.
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The same author made these maps with one hundred divisions, which are substantially less silly. 
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That very small grey bar down the US Midwest is surprising. I guess it does line up the more populous bits of Mexico and Texas
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Platystemon posted:substantially less silly.
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Still badly distorted due to their choice of map projection. It's pretty but meaningless.
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A cylindrical projection is the only reasonable option. Lines of latitude must remain level across the image or the whole concept fails. Pseudocylindrical projections would work for horizontal stripes but not vertical ones. A case could be made for an equal-area projection (inc. the infamous Gall projection), but equirectangular, for consistent latitude–pixel correspondence, is a fine choice. Platystemon has a new favorite as of 17:14 on Jun 11, 2021 |
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Platystemon posted:The same author made these maps with one hundred divisions, which are substantially less silly.
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