Tag: Peutinger Table

• The Peutinger Table: a Roman road map that squashed the world

  

  I set a Roman road map 6.75 m long beside a modern one. It squashes the world 11 times north to south, yet 53% of its road distances are within 25% of the real road, and it switches to Gallic leagues exactly where it says it does.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  cartography, data visualisation, history, maps, Peutinger Table, Roman Empire, Roman roads, Tabula Peutingeriana