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Subject:        Re: OmnesViae: Tabula Peutingeriana
Date:   Tue, 06 Sep 2011 10:25:01 -0400
From:   Joel Kovarsky <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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I would also point out the somewhat different version (with fewer
place-names and original imagery of all 11 sections):
http://www.euratlas.net/cartogra/peutinger/index.html. The post below
seems related to yesterday's brief article about the work of René
Voorburg in _The Telegraph_
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/netherlands/8742884/1700-year-old-map-of-Roman-roads-used-for-online-journey-planner.html>.

Joel Kovarsky

On 9/6/2011 10:05 AM, Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library,
UW Milwaukee wrote:
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> Subject: OmnesViae: Tabula Peutingeriana
> Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 13:17:34 +0200
> From: Martin de Haan <[log in to unmask]>
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> Hello all,
>
> A Dutch Historian had worked the last 6 months (in his free time) on a
> digital version of the Tabula Peutingeriana, the Roman Roadmap.
>
> OmnesViae.org offers a reconstruction of the Tabula Peutingeriana with
> internet technology. The Tabula Peutingeriana is a medieval copy of a
> Roman roadmap from about the year 300 CE.
> This reconstruction is mainly based on research by Richard Talbert. The
> places, connections and distances are mostly derived from data published
> by Talbert (seehttp://cambridge.org/us/talbert/). To study the Tabula
> Peutingeriana using OmnesViae, one needs to be aware of how this
> reconstruction was made, how it works and how the underlying data
> differs from Talberts dataset. http://omnesviae.org/reconstruction/ for
> more information.
>
> All 2760 places and roads between can be found at: http://omnesviae.org/
> (topright corner for language selection).
>
>
> Enjoy!
>
>
> Martin de Haan
>
> Utrecht (NLD)
>
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