The Footing Driving Times Map

Last twelvemonth Empty Pipes made a serial of beautiful looking isochrone maps showing public transit go times from major European cities. Now Empty Pipes is dorsum amongst Isochrone Driving Maps of the World.

Using OpenStreetMap mapping information together with the Graphopper opened upwards origin routing library Empty Pipes has created a serial of maps for towns together with cites unopen to the world. The map visualize the driving times when starting from the see of each of the mapped cities.

Empty Pipes every bit good makes a number of interesting observations based on his ischrone maps of driving times. For representative he notices how many of the driving fourth dimension maps for cities inwards the USA conduct maintain a distinctive pyramid shape. One number of the grid patterns of many American cities is that it takes much longer to effort 'along the diagonal than to go at nowadays northward together with south'.

Elsewhere geographical features tin hold upwards seen to conduct maintain a huge touching on driving times. For representative inwards Santiago, Republic of Chile the Andes mountains conduct maintain a clear touching on anyone driving due east of the city.