Isochronic Map shows how long it took to travel the world in 1914 (2015)

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: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;dataisbeautiful&#x2F;comments&#x2F;3ztqqr&#x2F;a_2016_version_of_the_1914_isochronic_londonworld&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;dataisbeautiful&#x2F;comments&#x2F;3ztqqr&#x2F;a_2...</a><p>Since Rome2rio had no interest in selling it, I licensed it and have it for sale on my website: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wellingtonstravel.com&#x2F;isochronic-map.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wellingtonstravel.com&#x2F;isochronic-map.html</a><p>I&#x27;d love to sell the original one too but couldn&#x27;t determine the copyright owner and get a high quality version of it.

An isochronic map of the Roman Empire: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;orbis.stanford.edu&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;orbis.stanford.edu&#x2F;</a> (path: &quot;About&quot; popup &gt; &quot;Gallery&quot;) Sigh.

When I was a kid in Britain in the 70s &quot;Outer Mongolia&quot; was slang for &quot;the furthest corner of the Earth&quot;, and there it is one of the places with the longest travel time from Britain a few generations before. it&#x27;s interesting how slang and preconceptions get fossilised in children&#x27;s vernacular.<p>My wife is from the Chinese regions of Inner Mongolia, which I didn&#x27;t even know existed until I met her. It looks like her hometown would actually have been harder to reach than Mongolia itself!

Interesting to see how both the Suez Canal and the Trans-Siberian Railway &quot;distort&quot; the map: without them travel to eg India or the Far East would have been much slower.

A curated collection of isochrone maps can be found here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alternativetransport.wordpress.com&#x2F;category&#x2F;isochrone-maps&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alternativetransport.wordpress.com&#x2F;category&#x2F;isochron...</a>

I wonder how visa availability affected travel time in 1914 and 2015. I know that I&#x27;d like to travel in Europe, but getting visa is very burdensome and unreliable, so I&#x27;m just traveling elsewhere. World where you could ride anywhere and settle there without any paperwork sounds like a miracle we lost.

Has anyone seen a map like this for a fictional world? I&#x27;d love to see the Isochronics of Narnia.