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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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[–] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

Who would get where first?

Also, the animation doesn't run for me. I allowed JS, but still no go, probably something in LibreWolf preventing it.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Thanks, that was a real bug: LibreWolf's fingerprinting protection blocks reading back canvas pixels, and the map read its data that way. It now decodes the data directly, so it should play for you after a reload.

    "Where" = every place in Europe: each spot is coloured by the capital whose car reaches it first, if all 38 cars leave at the same moment. Tap any place on the map (or type a town) to see who gets there first, second and third, with the drive times.

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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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