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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 #8

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.

That's some coincidence. I'm from about 20 min south of there (Im.). I was surprised to see KE on there.

20 minutes by foot or horse?

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

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Tabula Peutingeriana is a road map of Europe which is a copy of a Roman original thought to have been based on a map prepared by Agrippa.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/TabulaPe...

It also has a 'subway' feel, given that not much attention has been paid to getting the shapes correct.

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

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Tabula Peutingeriana is a road map of Europe which is a copy of a Roman original thought to have been based on a map prepared by Agrippa. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/TabulaPe... It also has a 'subway' feel, given that not much attention has been paid to getting the shapes correct.

"the Greenbelt" amplifying the fact that civilization used to spread more in east-west direction then North-South

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

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post #6

Do you find subway-style to be a good method of conveying information? People seem to have agreed that the use of distinct colors is good, but are there more efficient ways of conveying the same info, for a given size? For example London tube map doesn't waste space to show actual distance and I am looking for other ideas on how to compress this.

The designer suggests it was done for aesthetic reasons. More importantly it held my interest a lot longer than a typical map might have, and thus I now know more about Ancient Roman roads!

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

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Tabula Peutingeriana is a road map of Europe which is a copy of a Roman original thought to have been based on a map prepared by Agrippa. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/TabulaPe... It also has a 'subway' feel, given that not much attention has been paid to getting the shapes correct.

Any idea what the small circular lake with the island in the middle, at bottom right might be? That's an interestingly precise shape.

(It's surrounded by labels for desert, but I can't make out the labels on the island itself.)

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

#29
It's strange there are so many coastal routes. Shipping virtually anything by sea has been cheaper than moving it over land for a long time, and that probably includes troops. I would have expected roads to connect coastal settlements inland, not along the coast.
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