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Roads to Rome (2015)

28 points| robin_reala | 15 days ago |benedikt-gross.de

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Insanity|11 days ago

There's also this website which shows ancient Roman roads: https://itiner-e.org/. Note that some roads are speculative / hypothetical though. But regardless it's also a cool road map related to Rome.

uwagar|11 days ago

cant any point on the map with a road be a rome?

refactor_master|11 days ago

Yes, even ferries in Scandinavia can be roads when it makes for a better map… Or not ferries in the Mediterranean when it doesn’t.

Honestly I think this part

> The resulting images bring insights into the ways in which road infrastructure reflect regional, political and geographical situations.

should just be taken as pseudo-profound art fluff. Are you telling me all Greek commercial transport goes straight through non-Schengen instead of just ferrying across?