An edited version of the Roman roads originally digitized and geocoded by the Ancient World Mapping Centre (AWMC) based on the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World for the provinces Britannia, Germania Superior and Inferior, Raetia, Noricum,…
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An edited version of the Roman roads originally digitized and geocoded by the Ancient World Mapping Centre (AWMC) based on the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World for the provinces Britannia, Germania Superior and Inferior, Raetia, Noricum, Pannonia Superior and Inferior, Moesia Superior and Inferior, and Dacia. The trajectories and intersections of these roads were validated in QGIS software by reconnecting loose ends due to minor errors in the coordinates of the original dataset. Due to fixing the loose ends of the network by an algorithm in QGIS using a buffer, this network is suitable for interconnected distance measurements and is not an exact representation of the Barrington Atlas data. The elements of the data are shapefile lines segmented by 1km.
Originally: Roman roads. In: Ancient World Mapping Center [Internet]. [cited 10 Dec 2020]. Available: http://awmc.unc.edu/awmc/map_data/shapefiles/ba_roads/.
Newly: https://github.com/AWMC/geodata/tree/master/Cultural-Data/roads