The map is pretty simple to use, with every twisty road colored from yellow, to red, to pink. Yellow roads are mildly curvy and barely any fun but they’re better than straight roads.

The company also noted in today’s blog post that its contributors have mapped more than 1.5 million kilometers of roads, enabling more than 200 million people to navigate with Google Maps.

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Through cameras already installed in production cars, Intel will build highly detailed maps of roads around the world for self-driving vehicles. Two million cars will map roads for Intel in 2018 ...

Very few of the world’s roads, it turns out, run in straight lines. But the American Midwest is chock full of them. Thanks to John Metcalfe at CityLab for spotting this strangely fascinating map ...