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[OC] If every European capital sent out a car at the same moment: whose car gets there first (copilot.travel)
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[–] [S] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Data: drive times computed on the OpenStreetMap road network (roads and ferries © OpenStreetMap contributors); coastlines and borders: Natural Earth.

Tools: Python (NumPy, Pillow) for the drawing, ffmpeg for the GIF. Method: for each of 38 capitals, the drive time to every point on the road network, non-stop at typical road speeds with no traffic;

Ferries at their sailing time with no waiting. Each spot is coloured by the capital whose car arrives first. Equal-area projection, so the territory sizes are true km².

Grey: not in the race (Iceland, Malta, Cyprus, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Russia, Turkey). Dark: no car within 18 hours. Some results: Berlin's car reaches only 37 % of Germany first; Liechtenstein's car reaches Zürich in about an hour, before Bern's;

Monaco's car claims about 94 500 km², roughly Portugal; Dublin's car takes the Belfast ferry and wins south-west Scotland.

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