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- dmurrayThis part is clearly nonsense:> According to the planner’s calculation, the journey would have taken 43 days to cover 1,500 Roman miles. To put that into a contemporary context: the same route by road today can be completed in 14 days (340 hours) on foot, or 16 hours by car (source in Spanish).It would take 340 hours to walk, whether you do it today or in Roman times. Google maps is assuming you would walk for 24 hours a day, the planner is assuming you could walk for around 8.
- echoangle> The tool is called OmnesViae (Omnesviae.org (source in Spanish))I’m pretty sure the page is in Latin for me
- comrade1234Not including having to wait three months in the winter before attempting to cross the alps.
- anonundefined
- tomassirioThe distances are sound, but the estimated times to get from point A to point B are a little bit sketchy.This year I walked from Utrecht to Compostela in 45 days. That was around 12 hours on the street each day, with the comfiest shoes humanity has ever made and a super market every 15 km at most.Even then, it was tough af
- brudgersTabla Peutingeriana at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_Peutingeriana
- madhu_ghalame[dead]
- khanhnguyen8386Open source code on Codeberg and historical data combined into a functional map—this is the kind of passion project the web was built for.