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ITT, lot's of anecdotal stories about people using map services and driving down crappy roads in the middle of nowhere. Here's some aggregated data to provide context on how road networks are composed and the changes they go through.

The road network in Sweden is comprised of 36 million+ distinct coordinates that form 3 million+ roads which are joined on 2.4 million+ nodes.

In the first half of 2020, 16 thousand+ class (funktionell vägklass) 9 roads were added to the network, consisting of 2,769 km of road. Class 9 roads are the highest classification of roads in the Swedish road network and is loosely defined as "where vehicle traffic normally doesn't occur but is totally possible". Class 9 roads compromise 38.2% of all road links in the Swedish road-network for vehicles.

This represents the lions share (64.22% number of road links, 75.33% km of road link) of the changes in the road network during the first half of 2020.

This data originates from the NVDB service of the Swedish traffic agency and can be viewed here on a map: https://nvdb2012.trafikverket.se/SeTransportnatverket




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