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

kybernetikos wrote: post #22

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.

That map is just awsome in so many ways. Where is Denmark and Sweden though? Romans just didn't think there was anything up there? Nothing? Way too cold up there for people to live?

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

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Post by eeks » Thu, Jun 08, 2017, 10:40 AM UTC

singularity2001 wrote: post #23

Vienna seems very off?

Many places in Gallia are off: Vienna is one; Augustodunum is certainly not at the same latitude as Lutetia; Genava is most certainly not south of Lugdunum; etc. Cool map otherwise !

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

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Post by halfdan » Thu, Jun 08, 2017, 10:51 AM UTC

edward_rolf wrote: post #56

kybernetikos wrote: post #22

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.

That map is just awsome in so many ways. Where is Denmark and Sweden though? Romans just didn't think there was anything up there? Nothing? Way too cold up there for people to live?

They didn't really get past the Germanic tribes and stopped expansion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Teutoburg_Forest

Presumably also because there wasn't much there at the time that would've allowed them to collect taxes.

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

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Post by afleck » Thu, Jun 08, 2017, 10:55 AM UTC

cannam wrote: post #26

kybernetikos wrote: post #22

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.)

https://www.google.com/maps/@30.3922623,49.233182,10z

I believe it's this.

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

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Post by aquadrop » Thu, Jun 08, 2017, 10:59 AM UTC

_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 just recently visited ruins of Tanais (most north-east town on this map) and it was also nice to find it here :) Feeling all that historical connection...