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Why is there so much dense coverage in southern Ontario than anywhere else in North America?
by bagels 7mo ago
Why is there so much dense coverage in southern Ontario than anywhere else in North America?
- aix1 7mo agoAn unusually dense road network? edit: This page has some data: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Landscape-metrics-for-roadless-areas-in-three-broad-regions-of-Ontario-2020-excluding_tbl2_361926838 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Landscape-metrics-for-ro... Southern Ontario has 4x the road density of the province average, so might be a contributing factor?
- OnACoffeeBreak 7mo ago"The darker colours are points that were updated closer to 2007 and the brighter colours closer to December of last year." It's possible that this area was just more recently updated and is not necessarily more densely covered compared to other areas.
- sanswork 7mo agoThat whole part of Ontario is basically farms with long straight concession roads so I imagine you could cover a lot of area quite quickly just driving in a straight line for a couple hours, turning driving 2 km then turning and driving straight for a couple hours on repeat.