Today I’m playing with rmapzen package to create some isochrone maps.
Isochrone maps depicts contours with equal travel time to particular location, by different modes of transport.
Here I plotted drive time to Orchard and walk time to Garden by the Bay.


Isochrone maps can be put to good use: for example, to find a house within x minute of public transport to work by overlapping isochrone map with district/zipcode shapefile to narrow down the search, or find out which area are least covered by healthcare facilities, which area are most covered by education sectors etc. I have yet to figure out if multiple isochrones can be created with rmapzen, depicting contours of travel distance to different locations.
This is #day38 of my #100dayprojects on data science and visual storytelling after away traveling a couple of weeks. Full code is on my github. Thanks for reading and feedbacks are welcomed.