Altered Maps XII: Not to Scale

[Borachio]

The map only shows the time it takes to get from Rome to various destinations, so I wouldn't imagine that it actually would have taken a week to get from Lyon to London. What slowed people down the most was actually land, as land travel was a lot slower than sea travel.

Yes. I can see that it shows that. But if it takes 3 weeks to get to Lyon, and 4 weeks to get to London. Why wouldn't it take 1 week to get from Lyon to London.

They could of course have gone all the way by sea. But I'd imagine that would take a lot longer. It's a very great deal further. And would make some sense for transporting tin and wheat of course. But just in terms of travel?

Still, I don't know. It's an interesting map. The SE corner is intriguing. Wouldn't they have gone up the Nile easily enough? Which the map seems to show. And then the desert seems to be a real barrier.

As for land travel being slower, I'm not sure that someone on horseback couldn't have travelled reasonably quickly provided the roads were dry. (Yes, I realize the map is "on foot".) And Roman roads were state of the art for the times in any case, weren't they?

 

[Tee Kay]

World according to CFC-OT, v.0.1

 

[madviking]

<3 u tk

 

[Lord of Elves]

I present my World Map of National Morality

Spoiler :

Dark green - Morally upstanding
Green - Good
Light green - Okay probably
Yellow - Questionable
Pink - Probably evil
Red - Evil
Dark red - Super evil
Gray - This is a place that exists?

 

[Joecoolyo]

World according to CFC-OT, v.0.1

I approve of Chicago.

 

[Masada]

Masada is Indonesia.

 

[eduhum]

I present my World Map of National Morality

Spoiler :

 

[Kyriakos]

World according to CFC-OT, v.0.1

+1

But where is Australia? A considerable number of ot posters are there anyway. Not sure if it is meant to be part of China, or just left out...

 

[gozpel]

+1

But where is Australia? A considerable number of ot posters are there anyway. Not sure if it is meant to be part of China, or just left out...

Where did the real Africa go then?

Are you one of them....? Congo will eat your ass, but only if you allow them to.

 

[Kyriakos]

Africa is there, just scaled in accordance to how much it is talked about in OT i suppose..

 

[JohannaK]

I present my World Map of National Morality

Spoiler :

Dark green - Morally upstanding
Green - Good
Light green - Okay probably
Yellow - Questionable
Pink - Probably evil
Red - Evil
Dark red - Super evil
Gray - This is a place that exists?

The paragon of objectivity and incontestable criteria.

 

[Kyriakos]

I don't see how Brazil and Argentina can be so much more moral than Italy and Iberia, when most of their population is either Iberian or Italian

And Greece should have it's own red tone, as the apogee of evil. It is basically Cronos (Saturn). It has two faces, though, so is also the apogee of anything good, potentially

 

[Arakhor]

But where is Australia? A considerable number of ot posters are there anyway. Not sure if it is meant to be part of China, or just left out...

TK is Australian as well. It's almost certainly deliberate.

 

[Tee Kay]

TK is Australian as well. It's almost certainly deliberate.

Or I just forgot

 

[Borachio]

http://www.worldmapper.org/posters/worldmapper_map141_ver5.pdf

Commuting time is a measure of how long people spend travelling to work, by whatever means. It could be by foot, bus, car, boat, train, bicycle or other means. The world average commuting time is 40 minutes, oneway. This is the average for people that work.
In Thailand, with the longest commuting times in the world, a total of 37 million hours is spent travelling to work everyday. If this number is
doubled the total time commuting each day in Thailand can be calculated. The average working person living in Thailand spends 2 hours everyday
travelling to and from work. The shortest journeys to work are in Malawi, taking just 2 minutes.
&#8226; Data are from the World Bank&#8217;s World Development Indicators, 2005.
&#8226; Commuting time is all the time spent travelling to (but not from) work by any means. Here only travel in one direction is counted. The work force
ranges from 21% to 60% of the population.
&#8226; See website for further information.

Territory size shows the proportion of total time spent travelling to work worldwide that occurs there.

 

[warpus]

Rushour in Bangkok is insane, so I'm not surprised by that. They now have and are expanding a metro and a skytrain, which should help, but some cabs will just drive off if you ask them to take them to certain parts of town.. Depends on the time of day, but sometimes they'll only take you so far - maybe to the river and suggest that you take a boat to the old town, if you're coming in from Sukhumvit, where a lot of tourists stay... and yeah, I've had them just drive off, because it's totally not worth their time getting stuck in traffic for a couple of hours.

 

[Borachio]

Really?

I suppose Thailand's infrastructure must be lagging behind its citizen's demand for commuting.

I've always thought commuting to work is insane. But people who work in London genuinely don't seem to have much choice. Very few people can afford to actually live in the City, yet a staggering number of people work there.

 

[classical_hero]

Or I just forgot

You are simply not a true blue dinky die Aussie. I demand you leave now. This is totally un-Australian of you.

 

[Tee Kay]

You are simply not a true blue dinky die Aussie. I demand you leave now. This is totally un-Australian of you.

How tactful.

Really?

I suppose Thailand's infrastructure must be lagging behind its citizen's demand for commuting.

Bangkok's infrastructure, in particular.

Even if the public transport network is radically expanded, Bangkokers like their cars.

 

[eduhum]

We should take into consideration that it's not about Thailand but Bangkok. The city has more than 10 million inhabitants, but the second largest city in the country has 250.000 people in it. Only in the capital extreme traffic jams happen.