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Renders every road in any city as white lines on black and nothing else, which turns an ordinary street plan into unexpectedly good art.
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City Roads sits in Map Oddities under Wander, filed as a minute.
About this category: True-size comparisons, cable maps, road-only renderings and the maps whose whole purpose is to correct something you believed.
Yes. City Roads is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use City Roads without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file City Roads as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "A minute": One quick round, then you can leave.
Every direct flight from any airport in the world drawn on one map, which is the fastest way to plan an unreasonable journey.
Overlays one country on another to scale, then works out how your life expectancy, income and odds of various things would change there.
Colour in countries, states or regions and export the result, which is where most of the maps you see argued about online are made.
Everybody notable enough for a Wikipedia entry, plotted at their birthplace, so you can find out who else came from your town.
A global membership devoted to looking up, with a cloud of the day and a manifesto against blue-sky thinking.
Match hue, saturation and complementary colours against a target, one exercise at a time, scored out of a hundred.
Hand-picked four-colour palettes posted daily and sorted by mood, with none of a generator's randomness.
Palette generator trained on photographs and films, so the colours it suggests look like they came from somewhere real.
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