Detailnetz

Berlin’s road network

Berlin
2022
Open Data
Author

Néhémie Strupler

Published

March 14, 2022

The “Detailnetz” provides Berlin’s main road network (data). Two variables gives important information about the roads:

Exhibit of the day

A crude map of the main road system in Berlin

Show the code of the exhibit
library(sf)
library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)

# "https://fbinter.stadt-berlin.de/fb/wfs/data/senstadt/s_vms_detailnetz_spatial_gesamt"
# https://tsb-opendata.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/detailnetz_strassenabschnitte/Detailnetz-Strassenabschnitte.gml
dsn <- read_sf("raw_data/Detailnetz-Strassenabschnitte.gml")
lor <- st_read("raw_data/lor_planungsraeume_2021.gml")
colnames(lor)[1:6] |> tolower() ->  colnames(lor)[1:6]
lor$plr_id <- lor$plr_id |> as.factor()
subset(lor, select=-bez) -> lor
lor_outer <- st_as_sf(st_union(lor))


ggplot(dsn) +
  geom_sf(data=lor_outer) +
  geom_sf(lwd=0.5) +
  theme_void() +
  theme(legend.key.width = unit(0.1, "npc"),
        legend.position="bottom") +
  labs(title = "Road network",
       subtitle = "Main axes in Berlin",
            caption = "Data: Detailnetz - Straßenabschnitte \nCC BY Geoportal Berlin")
ggsave("2022-03-14_detailnetz.jpg", width=7.0,
       height=6, bg="white", dpi = 160)

Berlin’s map of main road network. Data: CC BY “Geoportal Berlin / Detailnetz Straßenabschnitte”. Plot made with R, sf and ggplot2.