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December 4, 2022 12:47 PM Subscribe
How far can you walk in 10 minutes? How about an hour? Or on a bike? How far can you go by train in Europe in 5 hours? (How about non-stop?) For USians: Amtrak Explorer.
Ah, sorry about that. I'm running an ad blocker so don't see it.
Bonus material: Map of travel time from London to the rest of the world in 1881
posted by gwint at 1:42 PM on December 4, 2022 [3 favorites]
Bonus material: Map of travel time from London to the rest of the world in 1881
posted by gwint at 1:42 PM on December 4, 2022 [3 favorites]
"How far can you go by train in Europe in 5 hours?"
Oh, I see. You want to ruin my evening.
posted by MengerSponge at 1:45 PM on December 4, 2022 [1 favorite]
Oh, I see. You want to ruin my evening.
posted by MengerSponge at 1:45 PM on December 4, 2022 [1 favorite]
How many countries in Europe can you get to in 24 hours?
No planes, taxis or hitchhiking & leave every country in a different vehicle than you came in on.
posted by ambrosen at 3:07 PM on December 4, 2022
No planes, taxis or hitchhiking & leave every country in a different vehicle than you came in on.
posted by ambrosen at 3:07 PM on December 4, 2022
I love that bonus map.
posted by aniola at 4:13 PM on December 4, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by aniola at 4:13 PM on December 4, 2022 [1 favorite]
Repeat popups asking me to download software, even with Adblocker.
posted by ITravelMontana at 8:07 PM on December 4, 2022
posted by ITravelMontana at 8:07 PM on December 4, 2022
The first time I tried "How to make your drive fun," it did something I haven't been able to replicate. It charted the route from Chicago to LA, but all the sights along the way were taken from France and Spain. Who could miss the ruins of the medieval Château de Fausseflammes in [checks map] Plainfield, Illinois?
posted by Harvey Kilobit at 8:13 PM on December 4, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by Harvey Kilobit at 8:13 PM on December 4, 2022 [3 favorites]
Mods, the "How to make your drive fun" link seems to be a bust, please remove.
posted by gwint at 8:28 PM on December 4, 2022
posted by gwint at 8:28 PM on December 4, 2022
Nice! I've seen these called isochronal maps, though "time travel" is also sorta applicable in a wordplay way thats also maximally confusing.
posted by Pronoiac at 1:06 AM on December 5, 2022
posted by Pronoiac at 1:06 AM on December 5, 2022
"How far can you go by train in Europe in 5 hours?"
I love these types of things - it's interesting to see the effects of high speed trains, and that of the Alps. As it happens, I spent yesterday travelling from Venice to Frankfurt (mostly) by train. (Only mostly because I briefly ended up on a rail replacement bus as the result of a "removal of the remnants of war" taking place near Vicenza.) It should be an 11-12 hour train journey, depending on connections and which route you take.
I'm going to have to investigate some of the "dots" at the edge of the 5 hour limit for me here in Frankfurt.
posted by scorbet at 4:55 AM on December 5, 2022 [1 favorite]
I love these types of things - it's interesting to see the effects of high speed trains, and that of the Alps. As it happens, I spent yesterday travelling from Venice to Frankfurt (mostly) by train. (Only mostly because I briefly ended up on a rail replacement bus as the result of a "removal of the remnants of war" taking place near Vicenza.) It should be an 11-12 hour train journey, depending on connections and which route you take.
I'm going to have to investigate some of the "dots" at the edge of the 5 hour limit for me here in Frankfurt.
posted by scorbet at 4:55 AM on December 5, 2022 [1 favorite]
walking link doesn’t work for me on iphone, assuming it does on other things?
posted by lokta at 5:11 AM on December 5, 2022
posted by lokta at 5:11 AM on December 5, 2022
Bonus material: Map of travel time from London to the rest of the world in 1881
“Heaven preserve me! But I would wager four thousand pounds that such a journey, made under these conditions, is impossible.”
“Quite possible, on the contrary,” returned Mr. Fogg.
“Well, make it, then!”
“The journey round the world in eighty days?”
“Yes.”
posted by kirkaracha at 10:10 AM on December 5, 2022
“Heaven preserve me! But I would wager four thousand pounds that such a journey, made under these conditions, is impossible.”
“Quite possible, on the contrary,” returned Mr. Fogg.
“Well, make it, then!”
“The journey round the world in eighty days?”
“Yes.”
posted by kirkaracha at 10:10 AM on December 5, 2022
walking link doesn’t work for me on iphone, assuming it does on other things?
On a firefox desktop browser, it's buggy but it works (as long as you stick to places Google Maps has walk/bike data for). Some places, you can just tell it where you want to go and it's like "ok, sure!" Sometimes not. For instance, you put in Honolulu and it takes you somewhere else in the world entirely. But! Then you can just navigate to Honolulu and there's your radius. Fiddle with setting and then it tells you it isn't working. Move the map marker just slightly and set it down again. Voila! New radius. Repeat as needed.
posted by aniola at 11:39 AM on December 5, 2022
On a firefox desktop browser, it's buggy but it works (as long as you stick to places Google Maps has walk/bike data for). Some places, you can just tell it where you want to go and it's like "ok, sure!" Sometimes not. For instance, you put in Honolulu and it takes you somewhere else in the world entirely. But! Then you can just navigate to Honolulu and there's your radius. Fiddle with setting and then it tells you it isn't working. Move the map marker just slightly and set it down again. Voila! New radius. Repeat as needed.
posted by aniola at 11:39 AM on December 5, 2022
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