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Systems and Methods for mapping and analyzing networks are taught. Network line data is converted into point data. The point data is associated with cells of a grid overlaying the network. A number of points in each of the cells of the grid is determined. The number of points in one cell of the grid is compared to the number of points in other cells of the grid to determine the infrastructure in each of the cells of the grid. It is determined how the infrastructure in one cell is spatially related to the infrastructure in other cells in order to rank cell criticality. Cell criticality rankings are sequentially removed from the grid to determine consequential impact on network properties of the grid.