Roman roads in Roman border provinces for Spatial Proximity Analysis

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 GIS 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 rather than an exact representation of the Barrington Atlas data. The elements of the data are shapefile lines segmented by 1km. This dataset was used for measurements in Glomb, Tomas. 2021. "The spread of the cult of Asclepius in the context of the Roman army benefited from the presence of physicians: A spatial proximity analysis". PLoS ONE 16(8): e0256356. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256356.