OK, so I think I am done for now

2 more Eiffel Towers (in 🇳🇱, 🇦🇹) added to @Geoguessr map - so now 116 towers in 49 countries there 👇
geoguessr.com/maps/60451069a…

But there are 75 towers I cannot find in Google Street View!

So 191 replicas total!

More detail in 🧵
All the details of the towers are in this blog post 👇
jonworth.eu/the-weird-and-…

As well as the 116 towers I have been able to find, there are 75 more whether either the location is not known, or it is and there is nothing on Google Street View
In some places this is due to Street View being outdated, or towers having been built very recently

In other places it's because the tower cannot be seen from the road and there is no Google Photo Sphere close by
Do you live near one of these towers?

Follow this guide to add a Photo Sphere to Google Maps and let me know!
support.google.com/maps/answer/70…
Also if you happen to know of another tower that is not yet included in my list, likewise message me and I will happily add it!

Together we can map all of these! 💪

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20 Jul
OK, all previous tweets about UK COVID QR codes and 🇩🇪🇫🇷🇮🇪 apps *deleted*, because this situation is so very messy... and I am going to try to set the record straight in this thread instead

This stuff is important, and understanding it is complex, so bear with me

🧵
This applies to people vaccinated by the NHS in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 only. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and Northern Ireland do not issue QR codes to those vaccinated, so this is not applicable to them

It applies to those people travelling 🇬🇧 to 🇪🇺 & 🇨🇭, and NOT to people travelling to 🇬🇧
Scan NHS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 vaccination cert QR with:

🇩🇪 Corona-Warn-App
🤖 play.google.com/store/apps/det…
iOS apps.apple.com/de/app/corona-…

🇮🇪 COVID Tracker Ireland
🤖 play.google.com/store/apps/det…
iOS apps.apple.com/de/app/covid-t…

🇫🇷 TousAntiCovid
🤖 play.google.com/store/apps/det…
iOS apps.apple.com/us/app/tousant…

it IMPORTS
Read 13 tweets
20 Jul
All this mapping Eiffel Towers leads you to discover strange towers in strange places...

And Serbia 🇷🇸 has an Eiffel Tower strip, south east of Belgrade and north of Kragujevac

There are towers in:
Lozovik
Velika Plana
Markovac

🧵
Why are there Eiffel Towers in this area of Serbia you might ask?

Because lots of people from there went to work in France, or had a connection to France, as this story of the Markovac tower builder explains 👇
blic.rs/vesti/srbija/a…
"I worked in Paris in paris in the 1970s as a car mechanic. It wasn't so bad, but I didn't even like it too much. I returned home and made the Eiffel Tower as a memory" says Milutin Damjanović who built it
Read 9 tweets
15 Jul
So rail nerds @TrainTracksEU @Koelschlenny @vorortanleiter @AndyBTravels @seatsixtyone @AnnaDeparnay @PaliparanDotCom @LenaDonat - let's plan @AdinaValean and @MarianMarinescu a nice rail route Bruxelles-Bucharest arriving latest morning of 17 Sept un Bucuresti Nord!
Perfect! Here we go...

Just 2 changes (in Vienna and Budapest), and time for a coffee with @lgewessler @MartinSelmayr at Wien Hbf en route!

Trip time 35 hrs 58 mins...

Now how best to book that? 🤔
OK, so we can book Bruxelles Midi - Wien Hbf - Budapest Keleti with ÖBB, €219,80 in a single compartment in the NightJet and a regular seat in the RailJet for the last bit...
Read 16 tweets
15 Jul
The CDU's candidate for Chancellor, @ArminLaschet, is still Ministerpräsident of Nordrhein-Westfalen

Nordrhein-Westfalen has seen the worst flooding in decades in the past 48 hours

What has Laschet said and done?

Pretty much nothing 🤷‍♂️

🧵

#BTW21
Twitter
@ArminLaschet

Nothing at all for 3 days
Facebook
facebook.com/ArminLaschet

Post from yesterday at an event in Stuttgart (i.e. not in Nordrhein Westfalen) where he was a speaker
Read 7 tweets
13 Jul
There are many things I don’t understand about railways in France

One is how they name their stations

Some examples in the 🧵
Chambéry station - an important regional junction - is called

Chambéry-Challes-les-Eaux

Because there’s a bit of town (NOT the bit where the station is!) called that. 🤷‍♂️
Aix-les-Bains

Station is called Aix-les-Bains-le-Revard because of course you need to add the name of the hills next to town to your station name 🤷‍♂️
Read 7 tweets
12 Jul
For some time I have been annoyed there is no discernible strategy for 🇪🇺-wide cross border rail
jonworth.eu/long-distance-…

I am not sure I have all the answers yet... but I think I am starting to get there

Short 🧵
First, an idea I first floated on my blog - that the EU ought to procure a pool of night trains - I have now developed into the @TrainsForEurope campaign

Original blog post from September 2020 👇
jonworth.eu/how-could-the-…
Second, timetable and ticketing data remains a mess (and the Rail Passenger Rights Regulation has not improved matters)

How do you solve this one? With some better open data standards

Blog post from November 2019 👇
jonworth.eu/how-a-little-o…
Read 7 tweets

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