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Old 09-05-2013, 02:14 AM   #1
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Default Orbis, a Roman travel guide

An amazing website out of Stanford, ORBIS, estimates routes, travel time, and costs by foot, cart, horse, rivercraft, and sea-going vessel throughout the Roman world.

I guessed this had already been posted somewhere here, but I couldn't find it with search - please forgive me if this is a repeat.

(Though this post was prompted by the recent low tech ships thread and its chilling echoes of a few earlier discussions of long-distance travel, I don't mean to wake Hikethulu.)
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Old 09-05-2013, 03:27 AM   #2
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I'm getting a 404 here...
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Old 09-05-2013, 03:56 AM   #3
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link works for me...

This is a pretty neat resource!
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Old 09-05-2013, 04:20 AM   #4
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Whoa!

This looks sweet.
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Old 09-05-2013, 04:48 AM   #5
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I haven't said it recently but this internet thingy is pretty cool.
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Old 09-05-2013, 10:48 AM   #6
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Be aware that the network model they use has a huge number of guesses and simplifications. Make sure you read http://orbis.stanford.edu/#understanding
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Old 09-05-2013, 11:52 AM   #7
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Interesting tool. Thanks for posting the link.

(Now we just need a similar one for each of the other 3e settings books -- especially the fictional ones.)
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