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The real road network, as it was in 1998

Traffic now drives the Transport Department's surveyed road centrelines, with every road built after 1998 taken out.

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Looking south-west over Yau Ma Tei at the bare West Kowloon reclamation, with the expressway along its edge and Hong Kong Island across the harbour.
West Kowloon in 1998: an empty reclamation and one new expressway.

The traffic now drives the Transport Department's own road centrelines instead of lines traced off a map picture. Roads that were built after 1998 have been taken out, so the network is the one you would have flown over in the last year of Kai Tak.

Looking south-west over Yau Ma Tei at the bare West Kowloon reclamation, with the expressway running down its edge and Hong Kong Island across the harbour.
West Kowloon: the reclamation is still empty, with only the 1997 expressway and the harbour crossing on it.

What changed

  • Accurate roads: every main road follows the surveyed centreline of each carriageway, joined through the junctions into long runs.
  • No tunnels on the hills: tunnel sections are left out, so traffic no longer drives over Lion Rock or across the harbour on the water.
  • Kowloon City streets: the streets under the approach come from the same data, which also places the shop signs and the asphalt there.
  • Street lights: spaced a little wider, since each carriageway now has its own row.

Taken out for 1998

  • Route 8 (Tsing Sha Highway and Stonecutters Bridge, 2008 to 2009).
  • Tsing Yi North Coastal Road and Hung Hom Bypass (1999).
  • Central-Wan Chai Bypass and the roads on the Central Reclamation Phase III and Tamar waterfront.
  • Everything on the Kai Tak site: the new streets on the old apron and runway.
  • The West Kowloon Cultural District streets, Cyberport Road, and streets first recorded after 2009, such as the Anderson Road estates.
Over Kwun Tong looking west: the Kwun Tong Bypass along the waterfront, the runway across the typhoon shelter and the harbour beyond.
Kwun Tong and Kowloon Bay: the bypass and Kwun Tong Road, with nothing built on the airport side.
Kowloon at night from above Lion Rock: lines of street lights tracing the main roads to the harbour and Hong Kong Island.
At night the street lights trace the 1998 main roads.

Source: Road Network Data of Hong Kong (Transport Department Intelligent Road Network, File Geodatabase by Esri China (HK)). Rebuild it with python3 tools/roads.py.

而家啲車行嘅係運輸署自己嘅道路中線，唔再係由地圖圖片描出嚟嘅線。1998 年之後先起嘅路已經拎走，所以個路網就係啟德最後一年你飛過嘅嗰個。

喺油麻地上空向西南望，西九龍填海區仲係一片空地，快速公路沿住邊行，海港對面係香港島。
西九龍：填海區仲係空嘅，上面得 1997 年嘅快速公路同過海隧道。

改咗乜

  • 準確嘅路：每條主要道路都跟住每條行車道實測嘅中線，喺路口接駁成長段。
  • 山上面冇隧道：隧道段拎走咗，啲車唔會再喺獅子山上面或者喺海面行。
  • 九龍城街道：進場航道下面嘅街道都係用同一份數據，招牌同柏油路面都係跟佢擺。
  • 街燈：間距闊咗少少，因為而家每條行車道都有自己一行燈。

為咗 1998 拎走嘅路

  • 8 號幹線（青沙公路同昂船洲大橋，2008 至 2009 年）。
  • 青衣北岸公路同紅磡繞道（1999 年）。
  • 中環灣仔繞道，同埋中區填海第三期同添馬海旁嘅路。
  • 啟德舊址上面所有嘢：舊停機坪同跑道上面嘅新街。
  • 西九文化區嘅街、數碼港道，同埋 2009 年之後先有紀錄嘅街，例如安達臣道嘅屋苑。
喺觀塘上空向西望：觀塘繞道沿住海旁，避風塘對面係跑道，再遠啲係海港。
觀塘同九龍灣：繞道同觀塘道，機場嗰邊乜都未起。
喺獅子山上空望夜晚嘅九龍：一行行街燈沿住主要道路一直去到海港同香港島。
夜晚啲街燈描出 1998 年嘅主要道路。

資料來源：Road Network Data of Hong Kong（運輸署智能道路網絡，Esri China (HK) 製作嘅 File Geodatabase）。用 python3 tools/roads.py 重新建立。

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