Itiner-e: The Digital Atlas of Ancient Roads
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Itiner-e hosts the most detailed open digital dataset of roads in the entire Roman Empire. The data creation is a collaborative ongoing project edited by a scholarly community. Itiner-e allows you to view, query and download roads. Each road segment has a URI that allows it to be cited and linked by external resources. It also includes a route-finding tool to explore travel itineraries and times in the ancient world (beta version). The associated data paper that describes the methodology of the project and the data is published and available in open access:
de Soto, P., Pažout, A., Brughmans, T. et al. Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire. Sci Data 12, 1731 (2025). [1]
Data Availability
The dataset is avilable for download on the project page. Individual road segments or selection of road segments can be downloaded from the map view. Since the dataset is intended to be a dynamic resource that develops a stable version is available at ZENODO. Itiner-e is licensed under CC-BY 4.0.