ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
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ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
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#2> ORBIS is designed for modern browsers and uses technology that works best in Chrome or Safari.
This is on latest Firefox. Really? The only truly open browser is not "modern"?
Re: ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
#3> ORBIS is designed for modern browsers and uses technology that works best in Chrome or Safari. This is on latest Firefox. Really? The only truly open browser is not "modern"?
Does it not work properly on Firefox? If so, I bet they'd probably appreciate the feedback on what is broken so they can try to fix it.
Re: ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
#4This would make the core of an interesting game.
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#5This would make the core of an interesting game.
Yes. The mechanic could be a variant of "ticket to ride" where instead of different color trains you get donkey, ship, and horse cards.
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#6I like how I posted this earlier, but the repost with the messed up URL gets the votes ;)
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#7Most interesting. I picked up The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in a used bookstore recently and this seems like it will be a useful study aid.
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#8'Conventional maps that represent this world as it appears from space signally fail to capture the severe environmental constraints that governed the flows of people, goods and information. Cost, rather than distance, is the principal determinant of connectivity.
For the first time, ORBIS allows us to express Roman communication costs in terms of both time and expense. By simulating movement along the principal routes of the Roman road network, the main navigable rivers, and hundreds of sea routes in the Mediterranean, Black Sea and coastal Atlantic, this interactive model reconstructs the duration and financial cost of travel in antiquity.'
Re: ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
#9> ORBIS is designed for modern browsers and uses technology that works best in Chrome or Safari. This is on latest Firefox. Really? The only truly open browser is not "modern"?
Doesn't work all that well on Chrome, either. Make the window narrow and the text goes below the fold but is unscrollable.
Edit: Just on the first page, it seems.
Re: ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
#10> ORBIS is designed for modern browsers and uses technology that works best in Chrome or Safari. This is on latest Firefox. Really? The only truly open browser is not "modern"?
Does it not work properly on Firefox? If so, I bet they'd probably appreciate the feedback on what is broken so they can try to fix it.
For me, on Firefox it immediately displays a splash screen recommending I switch to Chrome or Safari.