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How far you can get by train from any European station in five hours, drawn as coloured bands. Ruinous for an afternoon's productivity.
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Chronotrains sits in Map Oddities under Wander, filed as coffee break.
About this category: True-size comparisons, cable maps, road-only renderings and the maps whose whole purpose is to correct something you believed.
Yes. Chronotrains is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Chronotrains without signing up for anything.
Yes. Chronotrains works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
Renders every road in any city as white lines on black and nothing else, which turns an ordinary street plan into unexpectedly good art.
Every direct flight from any airport in the world drawn on one map, which is the fastest way to plan an unreasonable journey.
Overlays one country on another to scale, then works out how your life expectancy, income and odds of various things would change there.
Colour in countries, states or regions and export the result, which is where most of the maps you see argued about online are made.
Paint over the tourist, the bin or the power line and it fills in whatever should have been behind them.
Sixty seconds to forge the Mona Lisa with a mouse, then a pixel-by-pixel score telling you exactly how badly it went.
Curated stumble button that sends you somewhere good rather than somewhere random, with categories if you are feeling fussy.
The word-association board game in a free, well-built online room: two spymasters, one grid of code names, nothing to install.
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