The shape of the Roman world
‘ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World’ simulates the time and price costs of travel by land, river and sea across the mature imperial transportation network, notionally approximating conditions around 200 CE. In the version used for this paper, the model links some 750 sites (mostly cities but also some landmarks such as passes and promontories) by means of c.85,000 kilometers of Roman roads selected to represent the principal arterial connections throughout the empire.
Maps in the Service of the State: Roman Cartography to the End of the Augustan Era
It is not only by chance, therefore, that it is in three particular applications of mapping-road organization, land survey for centuriation, and town planning-that Roman maps, or descendants of them, have survived.
Map Resources for Roman North Africa
Map Resources for Brent D. Shaw Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics: December (2005) Abstract This is the early draft of a collation of…