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Roman Roads (2017)

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Re: Roman Roads (2017)

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Post by shiroiushi »

ygra wrote: post #18
anVlad11 wrote: post #15

I've been always fascinated by subway maps. The best ones are usually made manually and require update from contractors on every infrastructure extension. Were there any efforts to make autogenerated styled subway maps? Not like stylization of OSM data, but real schemes that show the whole system without sensory overload?

Some examples of automatic layout in this style: - M. Nöllenburg: Automated Drawings of Metro Maps, 2005. We've used that a while ago to render a few pretty images with our graph visualization library, but runtime is prohibitive (along with the requirement of a fast ILP solver). - LOOM: https://github.com/ad-freiburg/loom and https://loom.cs.uni-freiburg.de/global

>We've used that a while ago to render a few pretty images with our graph visualization library, but runtime is prohibitive

I wonder if anyone's tried running it with the Tokyo transit system.

Re: Roman Roads (2017)

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Post by shiroiushi »

Phenomenit wrote: post #37
eschulz wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Horses would often be swapped out at stations when a wealthy person would have to travel very quickly across a long distance. Maybe this is an average since the speed with which horsemen could travel would depend on the rate at which they exchanged their horses. In an extreme example from the year 9 BC, the future emperor Tiberius traveled on the Roman Roads 330 miles (531 km) between northern Italy and modern day Ma…

So he rode really fast, reckless and sleep deprived to his brother who’d been injured in a horse riding accident?

It does seem a bit ironic (is that the right word?), but it's not like there were many other options for travel at that time.

Re: Roman Roads (2017)

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Post by mkarliner »

lpribis wrote: post #113
mkarliner wrote: post #111

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The only dead straight main road out of London runs very close to my house. It was the Roman military road out London and ran for a couple of hundred miles. In Saxon times it was called Watling Street.

I assume this is the A5? That's very cool, I always thought it was odd how straight it is.

Cricklewood Broadway on my bit :-)

Re: Roman Roads (2017)

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Post by caldarons »

busyant wrote: post #47

Pretty cool. My parents grew up in small villages that are adjacent to one of these ancient roads (via Tiburtina: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via_Tiburtina ) and the road basically still exists as a modern road. I remember driving near Pescara with my parents in the 1990s--they had not been back to Italy in 35+ years and they were trying to find their way back to their home towns. We stopped the car on the side of…

Never thought I would read about Pescara on HN! What a small world! :)

Re: Roman Roads (2017)

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Post by ygra »

shiroiushi wrote: post #121
ygra wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some examples of automatic layout in this style: - M. Nöllenburg: Automated Drawings of Metro Maps, 2005. We've used that a while ago to render a few pretty images with our graph visualization library, but runtime is prohibitive (along with the requirement of a fast ILP solver). - LOOM: https://github.com/ad-freiburg/loom and https://loom.cs.uni-freiburg.de/global

>We've used that a while ago to render a few pretty images with our graph visualization library, but runtime is prohibitive I wonder if anyone's tried running it with the Tokyo transit system.

At least the subways seem not that bad:

https://www.yworks.com/assets/images/blog/tokyo.1e410d12c2.s...

There are more here in the article (clicking an image opens a slideshow): https://www.yworks.com/blog/automatic-metro-map-generation

Re: Roman Roads (2017)

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Post by pantalaimon »

chewz wrote: post #83
xandrius wrote: post #52

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Saying that 60km "can be easily done" is quite a stretch. After 30-40km, even on flat, most people wouldn't do it easily at all. And I walk about 10km daily in one session and often do 30+km hikes.

When I was a boy scout (so 16 -18 yo) we were walking as a team 50-70 km per day and could sustain that for 2-3 days. More perhaps, but there was nowhere to go any further. We were wearing 20 kg in rather uncomfortable backpacks. On forced marches we could keep 7-8 km/h speed. And sometime we have practiced legionary walk which is alternating 200 steps jogging and 700 steps walking. One of the badges was for walking…

They also have a forced march event here where participants do 100km in 24h but it doesn't look easy

https://mammutmarsch.de/

Re: Roman Roads (2017)

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Post by boomskats »

Naissus represent! I love this. Testament to Harry Beck's circuit board mapping approach - so easy to read. With Roman roads being far more 'straight' than London tube lines, it's even more suitable.

Re: Roman Roads (2017)

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Post by throw_pm23 »

mr_toad wrote: post #110
ffgjgf1 wrote: post #65

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To be fair England was a complete backwater in Roman times, just like much of Europe away from the Mediterranean. IIRC by the 1000s Germany, France and Britain had already well surpassed their Roman population peaks, Italy on the other hand took another 500 years or so.

Even by the time of the Norman invasion it was still a back water that was being horse traded around by Danes.

Even today... Sorry, I kid, I kid.
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