Year: 2018

Ireland and Dublin Street Orientations

Based on the work by:

Geoff Boeing: Comparing City Street Orientations

Rixx: Street Orientations

The graphs show the percentage of streets that run in a certain orientation. So for a grid based city like Chicago, there will be a heavy bias in north/south and east/west streets. Bearing in mind north and south will be the same (unless there are one-way streets, which only count in the direction they run in).

But for older cities that formed naturally, without modern city planning, the streets should be more varied.

Ireland:

Largest populated places by population. Based on the Ordnance Survey Ireland urban areas. As it is OSI data, Northern Ireland is not included.

Dublin Postcodes:

Some areas are clearly impacted by large motorways running through them.

And for non-Dubliners, a map of the postal district boundaries:

I updated the script by Rixx, so that it would take a ShapeFile as an input with a few caveats (it must be WGS84, it must have an attribute that has the are name and it must be called settl_name).

Check out the script at: GitHub

Stanley Cup Champions Since 1915

Stanley Cup Champions Since 1915:

Average Location of Stanley Cup Champions Since 1915:

The average locations were created using a window function in PostgreSQL. We can utilise the geography type to take into account the curvature of the earth and make the calculation on a spheroid.

So for the average location of the last five years:

select id,
ST_Centroid(st_collect(geom)
over (ORDER BY id ROWS BETWEEN 4 PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW)::geography,
True)::geometry as five_year_cent
from nhl.winner_1915