{"id":1808362,"date":"2022-08-03T09:54:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T13:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1808362"},"modified":"2022-08-05T08:17:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T12:17:56","slug":"how-far-you-can-go-in-five-hours-or-on-a-single-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/08\/how-far-you-can-go-in-five-hours-or-on-a-single-train\/","title":{"rendered":"How Far Can You Go in Five Hours? Or on a Single Train?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Benjamin Tran Dinh (previously<\/a>) has built an interactive isochrone map of Europe<\/a> that shows you how far you can go by train from a given station in five hours (assuming a connection time of 20 minutes, which is an approximation: generous if same-station, less so if you have to cross the city). The map updates as you move the pointer across it, which is a lot of fun.<\/p>\n

The isochrones are generated from data from the direct.bahn.guru<\/a> site, a site that is worth looking at in and of itself: it shows all<\/em> the direct connections from a given station, i.e., everywhere you can get to on a single train. That site, in turn, gets its data from the Deutsche Bahn via a legacy API<\/a> that is necessarily incomplete and only covers destinations reachable from Germany<\/a>. But there are no complete datasets of European transport routes, so this\u2019ll do. [Maps Mania<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Benjamin Tran Dinh (previously) has built an interactive isochrone map of Europe that shows you how far you can go by train from a given station in five hours (assuming a connection time of 20… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[548,680,40,39,41],"class_list":["post-1808362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-transit","tag-europe","tag-isochrone-maps","tag-railroads","tag-railways","tag-trains","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1809673,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/11\/chronotrains-1911\/","url_meta":{"origin":1808362,"position":0},"title":"Chronotrains 1911","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"3 November 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"Benjamin Tran Dinh\u2019s interactive isochrone map of Europe showing how far you can go by train in five hours (previously) has a new variant that does the same thing for 1911 France. 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