{"id":4155,"date":"2017-04-03T10:38:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T14:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=4155"},"modified":"2017-04-03T10:38:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T14:38:04","slug":"1882-isochrone-map-of-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/04\/1882-isochrone-map-of-france\/","title":{"rendered":"1882 Isochrone Map of France"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I think I&#39;m in love: a stunning isochrone map of travel times from Paris by rail in 1882 (making this a very early example of the genre). <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gaSEzGCQWI\">pic.twitter.com\/gaSEzGCQWI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Transit Maps (@transitmap) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/transitmap\/status\/847941985394667521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Cameron Booth (of <a href=\"http:\/\/transitmap.net\">Transit Maps<\/a> fame) posted <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/transitmap\/status\/847941985394667521 \">an 1882 isochrone map of France showing travel times from Paris by rail<\/a>\u00a0to Twitter and boy did it ever go viral. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/transitmap\/status\/848590536936112128\">He&#8217;s planning<\/a> on selling a print of it on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambooth.net\/shop\/\">online store<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#39;m in love: a stunning isochrone map of travel times from Paris by rail in 1882 (making this a very early example of the genre). pic.twitter.com\/gaSEzGCQWI &mdash; Transit Maps (@transitmap) March 31, 2017&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/04\/1882-isochrone-map-of-france\/\">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":[10],"tags":[153,680,40,39],"class_list":["post-4155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-france","tag-isochrone-maps","tag-railroads","tag-railways","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":4155,"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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