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"A Dutch engineer has reconstructed, with the help of academic sources and
ancient cartography, the road map that linked up the Roman Empire. The result,
accessible from any browser, including on mobile phones, allows users to plot
routes between cities of Antiquity and find out how many days the journey would
have taken on foot or on horseback.
The tool is called OmnesViae and is based mainly on the
Tabula Peutingeriana,
a medieval copy of a Roman map that depicted the
cursus publicus, the
Empire's official road network.
As the western part of that document has been lost, the data for that area come
from the
Antonine Itinerary, another record from the Roman era. Behind the
project is René Voorburg, who drew on the work of historian Richard Talbert on
the
Tabula and on the location data from the Pleiades Project. The code and
database are open access and can be consulted on Codeberg."
Via Esther Schindler.
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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