These things are all about intersections and the intersections they connect with. The angled portions of Seattle's downtown just doesn't have anywhere near the

These things are all about intersections and the intersections they connect with. The angled portions of Seattle's downtown just doesn't have anywhere near the number of intersections as the NSEW part of the whole city. [1] > it calculates the compass bearing from each directed edge’s origin node u to its destination node v. Now we can visualize these bearings, binned together as a histogram to get a sense of the relative frequency of the streets’ spatial orientations. [1] https://geoffboeing.com/2018/02/street-network-orientation/ https://geoffboeing.com/2018/02/street-network-orientation/