{"id":40065,"date":"2017-09-07T04:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T08:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=40065"},"modified":"2020-01-19T13:08:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T18:08:38","slug":"roman-roads-of-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/09\/07\/roman-roads-of-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman Roads of Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2017\/08\/the-roman-roads-of-britain-visualized-as-a-subway-map.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Colin Marshall<\/a> shared this post on <em>Open Culture<\/em>:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_40066\" style=\"width: 463px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a data-id=\"40066\" href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Roman-roads-of-Britain-as-an-underground-map.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40066\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Roman-roads-of-Britain-as-an-underground-map-453x640.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"453\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-large wp-image-40066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Roman-roads-of-Britain-as-an-underground-map-453x640.png 453w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Roman-roads-of-Britain-as-an-underground-map-106x150.png 106w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Roman-roads-of-Britain-as-an-underground-map-424x600.png 424w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Roman-roads-of-Britain-as-an-underground-map-768x1086.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Roman-roads-of-Britain-as-an-underground-map.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-40066\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">[Click to embiggen]<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Though some of Britain&#8217;s Roman Roads have become modern motorways, most no longer exist in any form but those bits and pieces history buffs like to spot. This makes it difficult to get a sense of how they all ran and where \u2014 or at least it did until Sasha Trubetskoy made a Roman Roads of Britain Network Map in the graphic-design style of the subway maps you&#8217;ll find in London or any other major city today. Trubetskoy, an undergraduate statistics major at the University of Chicago, first found cartographical fame a few months ago with his &#8220;subway map&#8221; of roads across the entire Roman Empire circa 125 AD.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Popular request,&#8221; he writes, demanded a Britain-specific follow up, a project he describes as &#8220;far more complicated than I had initially anticipated.&#8221; The challenges included not just the sheer number of Roman Roads in Britain but a lack of clarity about their exact location and extents. As in his previous map, Trubetskoy admits, &#8220;I had to do some simplifying and make some tough choices on which cities to include.&#8221; While this closer-up view demanded a more geographical faithfulness, he nevertheless &#8220;had to get rather creative with the historical evidence&#8221; in places, to the point of using such &#8220;not exactly Latin-sounding&#8221; names as \u201cWatling Street\u201d and \u201cErmin Way.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, Colin Marshall shared this post on Open Culture: Though some of Britain&#8217;s Roman Roads have become modern motorways, most no longer exist in any form but those bits and pieces history buffs like to spot. This makes it difficult to get a sense of how they all ran and where \u2014 or at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[711,369,624,1343],"class_list":["post-40065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","tag-infrastructure","tag-interesting","tag-maps","tag-romanempire"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-aqd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40065"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54343,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40065\/revisions\/54343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}