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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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See also Orbis: http://orbis.stanford.edu/

Unfortunately, they've decided that Firefox 53 is an "older browser." There needs to be some ECMAScript versioning, some isFeatureAvailable() so that we can stop having this problem.

The older version of the map reminds me of Civ 1.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

Meeting on HN :-) Hi! I once had a girlfriend in Sonthofen.
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