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Isochronic Map shows how long it took to travel the world in 1914 (2015)
- taigeair 8y agoRome2rio did a new version for 2016 in the same style, which is juxtaposed to the 1914 version to show how travel times have changed. It was big on Reddit a couple years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/3ztqqr/a_2016_version_of_the_1914_isochronic_londonworld/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/3ztqqr/a_2... Since Rome2rio had no interest in selling it, I licensed it and have it for sale on my website: https://www.wellingtonstravel.com/isochronic-map.html https://www.wellingtonstravel.com/isochronic-map.html I'd love to sell the original one too but couldn't determine the copyright owner and get a high quality version of it.
- mc32 8y agoIt's a bit unexpected to see the interior of the Amazon region is more accessible than the interior of Australia or the northern regions of Alaska. My guess is that commerce is driving exploration/exploitation of the interior of the Amazon (more than those other places).
- ascar 8y agoMy guess would be a combination of the relative closeness of the next airport to any given point in the Amazonas region and the flight time from London to South America being about 10 hours shorter than to Australia due to 5km less distance and favorable flight direction regarding the earth's rotation.
- kiriakasis 8y ago> favorable flight direction regarding the earth's rotation. is the rotation a direct factor or are you referring to high altitude winds?
- ascar 8y agoI was referring to the high altitude winds that are highly affected by the coriolis force.
- peteretep 8y agoMay be that you're being confused by the map projection[0] -- South America is much much closer than Australia, and you can also take a direct flight there. LHR - Rio: 5,734 mi, and it's a direct flight. 11-12 hours ish in the air. LHR - Perth: 9,009 mi, and it wasn't possible as a direct flight when the map was made, meaning you'd be doing pretty well to get it done in under 20 hours, assuming Perth is even your best jumping-off point. You're looking at another three hours to get to SYD or MEL. Once there, there are no shortage of airstrips in central Brazil. [0] http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=GIG-LHR-PER http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=GIG-LHR-PER
- hexane360 8y agoI think it's just a matter of population. More people live around there, leading to more travel options nearby.
- OldHand2018 8y agoYour new map omits Lake Michigan but includes the text "Lake Michigan".
- Roritharr 8y agoI'd love to get one with Frankfurt/Germany in the center and would probably buy it as a Christmas gift for all our employees based here. Do you know how much hand massaging the data was necessary?
- pouetpouet 8y agoThe original is from John Bartholomew and co. from the Edinburgh Geographical Institute. It was published in 1914 in the Atlas of economic geography by Oxford University Press. https://archive.org/details/atlasofeconomicg00bart/page/n93 https://archive.org/details/atlasofeconomicg00bart/page/n93
- taigeair 8y agoThanks for the link!
- bpp 8y agoNot sure how the new map was generated, but it would be extremely cool to be able to plug in any city and have a map generated. Or at the very least have it for other major cities; I'd totally buy one with times from San Francisco.
- mtmail 8y agoThere's a couple of APIs https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Isochrone#Examples https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Isochrone#Examples I've only used the https://graphhopper.com/api/1/docs/isochrone/ https://graphhopper.com/api/1/docs/isochrone/
- jpatokal 8y agoInteresting to see how both the Suez Canal and the Trans-Siberian Railway "distort" the map: without them travel to eg India or the Far East would have been much slower.
- mncharity 8y agoAn isochronic map of the Roman Empire: http://orbis.stanford.edu/ http://orbis.stanford.edu/ (path: "About" popup > "Gallery") Sigh.
- badosu 8y agoThanks for sharing!
- escherplex 8y agoVery informative. Wonder how long it took to get from Greece to India at that time? Remember seeing a reference in a book on influence of the Cynics school on the later Platonic Academy, post Roman conquest, to a letter from one wealthy aristocrats' son to another concerning some 'Grand Tour' where they would travel to India to interact with Brahman intellectuals, then off to Persia to interact with Magi (there was a reference to the Dervish being useless) then back to Greece. Must have been at least a two year excursion.
- oh_sigh 8y agoI can give you an upper bound of 4 years - as that is how long it took Alexander's army to cover that distance(while winning a few battles here and there between all the walking).
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- throwaway9d0291 8y agoAlso for those interested, there's an open source project which will do this too, given GTFS data: http://docs.opentripplanner.org/en/latest/Intermediate-Tutorial/#calculating-travel-time-isochrones http://docs.opentripplanner.org/en/latest/Intermediate-Tutor... It's extremely fiddly to set up but it's also a lot more detailed.
- labster 8y agoHas anyone seen a map like this for a fictional world? I'd love to see the Isochronics of Narnia.
- mci 8y agoA curated collection of isochrone maps can be found here: https://alternativetransport.wordpress.com/category/isochrone-maps/ https://alternativetransport.wordpress.com/category/isochron...
- vbezhenar 8y agoI wonder how visa availability affected travel time in 1914 and 2015. I know that I'd like to travel in Europe, but getting visa is very burdensome and unreliable, so I'm just traveling elsewhere. World where you could ride anywhere and settle there without any paperwork sounds like a miracle we lost.
- 113 8y agoAs someone about to leave the EU, this makes me sad.
- ido 8y agoWhat nationality are you? Most first world countries can get an automatic 3 months tourist visa to the EU upon landing. I am also surprised that any nationality (except Americans) would have an easier time getting a US visa than an EU one!
- jablan 8y agoThere's no such thing as EU visa. You probably refer to Schengen. Here's a list of countries requiring a visa to visit Schengen zone: https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/who-needs-schengen-visa/ https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/who-needs-schengen-visa/ Among the people needing visa are citizens of India, China and Russia. I don't know which world you count them in, but that's helluva lots of people.
- vbezhenar 8y agoI'm from Kazakhstan. Must be easier for first-world countries, I guess. I can visit Turkey or Tailand relatively easy, so that's what everyone around is usually choosing.
- smcl 8y agoI think I remember reading that visas didn't really exist as a thing before the first world war, so it might not have had any effect at all.
- CalRobert 8y agoI used to burn with envy when I read about a 19th or early 20th century author or artist just picking up or moving to Paris, etc. I never read _anything_ about visas, immigration, etc. Even now, there's no shortage of travel blogs talking about moving to a new country and the vast majority fail to address this key detail (usually it seems they're written by a spouse of someone from said country). It would appear it did indeed used to be easier to travel pre-WWI, at least in terms of paperwork. There one was an understanding we should abolish passports: http://uk.businessinsider.com/when-governments-wanted-to-get-rid-of-passports-2016-10?r=US&IR=T http://uk.businessinsider.com/when-governments-wanted-to-get... Unfortunately, I strongly suspect that the main reason we keep immigration controls around is that not long after we brought them in to force, travel got really cheap. In 1880 traveling internationally was a hell of a lot harder, and one supposes there weren't as many people doing it (even proportionally). There also was just an awful lot more Earth to go around - a world with 1 billion people is a lot less crowded. Even now, most countries are fine with rich people entering. We just stopped being able to use "they came 5000 miles to get here" as a filter. It's kind of interesting that even though I'm fairly left, this is one of the arguments against a strong social safety net that I can buy. When you view every potential immigrant as a potential expense it gets harder (even if only politically) to let people in without trying to filter out those likely not to be net contributors.
- simonh 8y agoWhen I was a kid in Britain in the 70s "Outer Mongolia" was slang for "the furthest corner of the Earth", and there it is one of the places with the longest travel time from Britain a few generations before. it's interesting how slang and preconceptions get fossilised in children's vernacular. My wife is from the Chinese regions of Inner Mongolia, which I didn't even know existed until I met her. It looks like her hometown would actually have been harder to reach than Mongolia itself!
- bryanrasmussen 8y agoI think logically speaking any point within a region can only be as easy to reach as the region itself, and depending how you travel and how you define 'reaching the region' most probably will be required to be harder to reach than the region itself. That said it must be cool being married to someone from the farthest corner of the earth. Congratulation.