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Re: Roman Roads (2017)

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Post by trgn »

TimedToasts wrote: post #16
behnamoh wrote: post #10

Sometimes I wonder if we've regressed in terms of attention to quality. Here in the US, I see lots of potholes on the streets and sidewalks. Meanwhile, the ancient cobblestone roads are still functional to this day.

Drive a semi over those cobblestones daily for a year and we'll see how they are doing.

For sure, but unfair comparison. Leave an asphalt road unattended for 10 years and it's cracked and overgrown, barely better than a dirtroad. A cobblestone at least will be salvageable, just will need a good weed wacking. Baseline quality is just higher.

Re: Roman Roads (2017)

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Post by QuercusMax »

beerandt wrote: post #85
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…

Newer but similar thing with Old Spanish Trail through the southern US (and similar historic trails). So many roads named after something or named some nostalgic but generic thing, that no one realizes when they are actually driving on the modernized version of the real thing. Among other things, it seems most expect there to be a route 66 style or (american) rail-row insitu abandoned artifact of these roads (which d…

El Camino Real in California is now just another road full of strip malls going through Mountain View and Palo Alto.

Re: Roman Roads (2017)

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Post by AlbertCory »

There's a series on Amazon Prime where a Brit actually travels the main Roman Roads in England, revisiting the history while he goes.

They actually demonstrate how they got the roads so straight.

Re: Roman Roads (2017)

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Post by [deleted] »

AlbertCory wrote: post #93

There's a series on Amazon Prime where a Brit actually travels the main Roman Roads in England, revisiting the history while he goes. They actually demonstrate how they got the roads so straight.

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Re: Roman Roads (2017)

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Post by brudgers »

QuercusMax wrote: post #92
beerandt wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Newer but similar thing with Old Spanish Trail through the southern US (and similar historic trails). So many roads named after something or named some nostalgic but generic thing, that no one realizes when they are actually driving on the modernized version of the real thing. Among other things, it seems most expect there to be a route 66 style or (american) rail-row insitu abandoned artifact of these roads (which d…

El Camino Real in California is now just another road full of strip malls going through Mountain View and Palo Alto.

The road retained its name in part of Silicon Valley, but the 101 follows the Camino Real as it continues south. There are commemorative markers.

Re: Roman Roads (2017)

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Post by raddles »

AlbertCory wrote: post #93

There's a series on Amazon Prime where a Brit actually travels the main Roman Roads in England, revisiting the history while he goes. They actually demonstrate how they got the roads so straight.

Is it this?

Britain's Ancient Tracks with Tony Robinson https://m.imdb.com/title/tt6165532/

Re: Roman Roads (2017)

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Post by mqus »

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?

I know of https://blog.transitapp.com/how-we-built-the-worlds-pretties... because it was on hn

Re: Roman Roads (2017)

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Post by ralferoo »

zabzonk wrote: post #59
arktos_ wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Itidem mihi, nobis ergo sunt naves longae navigandae

caesar ad sum jam fortea brutus ad sum too caesar sic in omnibus brutus sic in hat

I learned it slightly differently:

caesar adsum iam forte

pompeius aderat

caesar sic in omnibus

pompeius inis at

Re: Roman Roads (2017)

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Post by maximinus_thrax »

ardit33 wrote: post #50

The Roman Empire was very advanced for the time, and it left such a huge imprint on the civilization even centuries, and thousands of years after it. The organization was a different scale. Fun fact: Some of the most famous battles in England in the middle ages, such as battle of Hasting, were basically 5k - 9k soldiers in each side. That's just one and a half Roman legion. Rome, could field 12 legions at a time, and…

> The Roman Empire was very advanced for the time, and it left such a huge imprint on the civilization even centuries, and thousands of years after it.

Some even say.. the empire never ended.

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