In Motorway or motornay? I coloured UK roads by the first number in their name. To make the nomenclature clearer I have grouped these roads into regions, then coloured the map below.
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How does this compare with the principal A roads, I hear nobody ask…On the image below the principle A roads are on the left of each region, if looking from London (or Edinburgh for regions 7, 8 & 9). Do the rest of the numbers make any sense? Is this some kind of primitive geometric hashing? Stay tuned for next time…
Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right [2014].
To produce both of these images I removed motorways, trunk roads and any other roads over 75km in length (150km in Scotland), which are those roads shown here:
Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right [2014].
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