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- Open source code on Codeberg and historical data combined into a functional map—this is the kind of passion project the web was built for.
- I mean, technically it was built for "the management of general information about accelerators and experiments at CERN". The fact that it also supports a whole bunch of peoples' passion projects as well as a multi-trillion dollar commercial marketplace is just a bonus...
- Tabla Peutingeriana at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_Peutingerianaby brudgers
- A map graved in stone in Rome wasn't too convenient for travelling...by dolmen
- The distances are sound, but the estimated times to get from point A to point B are a little bit sketchy.
This year I walked from Utrecht to Compostela in 45 days. That was around 12 hours on the street each day, with the comfiest shoes humanity has ever made and a super market every 15 km at most.
Even then, it was tough af
by tomassirio - Not including having to wait three months in the winter before attempting to cross the alps.by comrade1234
- > The tool is called OmnesViae (Omnesviae.org (source in Spanish))
I’m pretty sure the page is in Latin for me
by echoangle - This part is clearly nonsense:
> According to the planner’s calculation, the journey would have taken 43 days to cover 1,500 Roman miles. To put that into a contemporary context: the same route by road today can be completed in 14 days (340 hours) on foot, or 16 hours by car (source in Spanish).
It would take 340 hours to walk, whether you do it today or in Roman times. Google maps is assuming you would walk for 24 hours a day, the planner is assuming you could walk for around 8.
by dmurray - It would take longer now because we have to wait at crosswalks and ask for a code to go to the bathroomby reddguard
- Not if cutting through dense bush, water, bog or rocky environments would be necessary.by redwood
- Who'd walk the route more easily for 8h though? A random Western today or a random Roman then?by NotCamelCase
- I think they generally take some approximations, but yeah the walking one is problematic. Horseback is also mentioned, but depending on wealth you could use regular stops across the road and swap your horse when it got tired. So travel times would depend not only on your horse but also your ability to swap horses and availability of stops along the way.
Which in my mind is reminiscent of swapping your EV battery along roadstops lol.
Either way, these are just approximations to give a general sense of travel speed. And no doubt nowadays the world feels smaller because we can much more easily travel between distant locations.
by Insanity - Yes, distance is about the same. 1488Km in Google and 1075 Roman miles in Omnesviae [0], that is ~1590 Km.by seri4l
- That said, as someone who has walked on cobblestone - a modern road in modern boots is different to an ancient road in ancient boots.
I'd bet money the 'real' travel times would differ.