Gotta Catch'em All - Possible Locations of Missing Roads

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PLEASE, DO NOT POST UNLESS YOU ARE SHARING A LOCATION!!
This thread aims to be a repository of help. If a user has to scroll through endless posts of: "thank you so much this was my last road", or "I did not have luck with these ones", etc in between actual helpful information, this thread will not fulfill its potential.
If you want to say thanks, just react to the post with a thumbs up.

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If you are not one of the 671/671 lucky ones, that is due to at least one of three reasons:

1. You are missing a piece of road that is visible in your map - it is visible in the sense that it is greyed out. It most likely is a really tiny piece. You have 3 options to deal with it:
  • You can look very closely, and carefully. Maybe go region by region to make sure you are thorough.
  • You can use your mouse as a scanner. The game allows fast travel to every piece of road you have discovered, and conversely will not allow you to fast travel to any piece of road that you have not discovered. We can take advantage of this. Simply move your mouse across the map as if you are trying to go over every pixel, and pay attention to the bottom legend - if you go over a missing piece of road the option to fast travel disappears and all options move to the left to fulfill that spot. You can move your mouse really fast, I suggest either horizontal or vertical lines, or a circular motion. I do not recommend using a controller because it moves too slowly.
  • There is a tool in github that leverages the fact that missing roads are a unique grey color, and by streaming your game to your browser it changes the grey color to purple so you can easily spot those roads. I have not tried the tool, so try at your own risk.
2. You are missing a piece of road that is under another road, and thus not visible on your map. This could be a crossing, or roads that run on top of one another. Drive on the bottom roads to trigger the road discovery count.

3. You are missing a piece of road that is not under another road, and that is not visible on your map. This could be because the missing piece of road falls in between the dashes of a orange road, or due to a game bug/glitch. I do not wish this situation on my worse enemy.

This thread aims to compile the various locations where people found their last roads, the ones you found after hitting a brick wall and had to put some effort in the search and rescue drive. The assumption here is that it is likely some of the suggestions will help someone else, thus making the world a better place. You are also welcome to share locations that you have seen other users sharing on the internet. Please add some context to the location you are sharing, something like: "this was the location of the last road I was missing", or "a user on facebook claims this road was glitched and by driving it again it unlocked a missing road". Always accompany your post with an image of the map.

If you really want to go above and beyond sharing possible locations, there are 3 tasks that you may try to complete:

Task A - Get confirmation that the map only shows the status of the top road. To test this you need to have two roads that run on top of one another, both undiscovered. You then need to discover the bottom road and see if the map shows the road greyed out - this confirms the map only shows the status of the top one. There are two bridges connecting Tokyo and Daikoku that you can use to do this.

Task B - Gather all the crossings and roads that run on the bottom of other roads in a map. This will allow a brute force approach to reason number 2.

Task C - Gather all pieces of road not used by any races in a map. This will allow someone to narrow down the map significantly if they want a brute force approach to all roads, after running each race at least once.
 
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The map is missing a dash in this location, making it look like these are two roads. The mini map shows the missing dash.
 
Spot 3.webp

I was trying to run through roads than run under other roads, and this spot has plenty of crossings. Besides the 3 crossings, it also has some parallel orange dash roads that run right under the freeway (not sure if those are counted, but it does not hurt to try).
 
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Many users on reddit claim the bottom road of this bridge was one of their missing roads. Users also point that the junction to the north both the bottom and top approach may be candidates, and at least one user complained that the road only triggered when driving in a certain direction (so run the 2 approaches of the junction in both directions).
 
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After using the mouse scanner method I found out there was a missing bit here, but it was not visible on the map - the road was all white. I drove there and it did not trigger the road discovery count. However the missing spot on the map that did not allow fast travel disappeared. I was so happy I had found my last road, oh well.
 
Another orange dash that the map does not include but is included in the mini map.
There's quite a few of these; as you point out, rolling the mouse (or, for Xbox users, cursor) across them shows if the section is missing or not.
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After using the mouse scanner method I found out there was a missing bit here, but it was not visible on the map - the road was all white. I drove there and it did not trigger the road discovery count. However the missing spot on the map that did not allow fast travel disappeared. I was so happy I had found my last road, oh well.
That one is odd. In fact that whole area is odd - that little path below the road really fought being registered, and was the one I was mentioning up in the GenDisc thread.

One that really blends in is this:

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When grey it's hard to pick out from the river - I did three full map passes before I saw it - and because two chunks of the road are washed away you can only drive it north-south. There's a bonus board there though, which may aid discovery but only if you have that turned on and aren't turning everything off to look for grey roads :lol:
 
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One that really blends in is this:

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When grey it's hard to pick out from the river - I did three full map passes before I saw it - and because two chunks of the road are washed away you can only drive it north-south. There's a bonus board there though, which may aid discovery but only if you have that turned on and aren't turning everything off to look for grey roads :lol:
This one nearly caught me out before I spotted it today so I was checking this thread out to see whether anyone had posted it.
 
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