via DVICE Atom Feed by Charlie White on 10/26/09
Physical distance used to dictate how remote a place was, but no longer. Now that there are airlines reaching around the globe, bullet trains, Autobahn-like superhighways and go-fast boats, the remoteness of the location is measured by how good the transportation is between here and there. In the map above, the darker a location is, the harder it is to get there.
Created by the European Commission's Joint Research Center in Italy and the World Bank, the map started out as a model based on how long it would take to travel from each point to a city with a population of 50,000.
Just be happy you're not in Tibet, the most remote place in the world — you'll travel three weeks to get to a city of any decent size, including 20 days on foot. And we thought the Midwest was in the boondocks.
New Scientist, via Fast Company
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