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A subway-style diagram of the major Roman roads, based on the Empire ca. 125 AD

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Re: A subway-style diagram of the major Roman roads, based on the Empire ca. 125 AD

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Post by ygra »

sumobob wrote: post #5

ordered! Super awesome work, love it! Question: Did you build this programmatically querying Orbis or just drew it by hand?

As for the layout I'd guess hand-drawing. It's not that large a graph to begin with and subway-style layout algorithms tend to be horribly slow.

Re: A subway-style diagram of the major Roman roads, based on the Empire ca. 125 AD

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Post by ponyous »

_Codemonkeyism wrote: post #7

Very happily my hometown of Cambodunum is there, feeling strangishly proud. Sadly in 125AD we we're no longer a capital of Raetia, lost that to Augusta Vindelicorum.

I feel strangely proud as well. My city never appears on HN, but Poetovio appears on here and it has only 20K people nowadays. In the Roman times, it had an estimated 40k population and it was a military camp IIRC.

Re: A subway-style diagram of the major Roman roads, based on the Empire ca. 125 AD

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Post by bzbarsky »

prewett wrote: post #4
trynewideas wrote: post #3

See also Orbis: http://orbis.stanford.edu/

Unfortunately, they've decided that Firefox 53 is an "older browser." There needs to be some ECMAScript versioning, some isFeatureAvailable() so that we can stop having this problem. The older version of the map reminds me of Civ 1.

It gets worse. Per comments on https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/172 if you just spoof the Chrome or Safari UA string the site works fine...

Re: A subway-style diagram of the major Roman roads, based on the Empire ca. 125 AD

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Post by Rotten194 »

fsiefken wrote: post #16

Why is Jerusalem not marked? Was the city not big enough at the time?

It is marked, as Aelia Capitolina. It was renamed after the emperor Hadrian razed the city and expelled its Jewish population in the aftermath of a revolt.

Re: A subway-style diagram of the major Roman roads, based on the Empire ca. 125 AD

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Post by bhaak »

_Codemonkeyism wrote: post #7

Very happily my hometown of Cambodunum is there, feeling strangishly proud. Sadly in 125AD we we're no longer a capital of Raetia, lost that to Augusta Vindelicorum.

My hometown of Curia is there as well.

Although, doesn't make me especially proud, it has been an uninterrupted population history that starts way before the Romans. :-)

Not much of Roman ruins to see nowadays unfortunately.

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