Blog: Pete Loshin

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Time Travel Maps!

I'm fascinated by the physics of time travel, but the type "time travel" instead of "travel time" caught my eye in the link I clicked on to get to Travel-time Maps and their Uses and this More travel-time maps and their uses. Not maps for time travelers, but maps that illustrate the amount of time it takes to travel.

Very interesting and even helpful if you're in the UK: you can use these maps, for example, to figure out whether it's quicker to drive or take a train to a destination, or the fastest mode of transportation for rush hour commuting. But it's also a very neat illustration of how big piles of data can be turned into intelligence. And you don't need me to explain how that kind of intelligence can become "business intelligence" for any business that needs to allocate resources to get people or things from one place to another.

It's all brought to you by mySociety, a charitable project that develops their software as open source; if you're interested in having them do custom mapping for your business, they seem to be willing to do that for a fee (or a donation, I'm not sure how that works in the UK).

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