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Rome2rio 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_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

I'd love to sell the original one too but couldn't determine the copyright owner and get a high quality version of it.

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The 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

Thanks for the link!

Your new map omits Lake Michigan but includes the text "Lake Michigan".

It'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).

My 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.

> favorable flight direction regarding the earth's rotation.

is the rotation a direct factor or are you referring to high altitude winds?

I was referring to the high altitude winds that are highly affected by the coriolis force.

May 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

I think it's just a matter of population. More people live around there, leading to more travel options nearby.

Not 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.

There's a couple of APIs https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Isochrone#Examples I've only used the https://graphhopper.com/api/1/docs/isochrone/

I'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?

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