Roman Empire Vector Map

Available

 * Pilot on Github https://klokantech.github.io/roman-empire/#3.97/45.49/6.47

Authors

 * Johan Åhlfeldt
 * Ida Storm
 * Petr Pridal

Description
This project aims at creating a tiled vector map to replace the current raster tiles of the Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire (DARE). The projects builds on Open Source technology, developed by Klokan Technologies and data from the DARE gazetteer and geographical information system as well as other openly available data. The resource created by this project are licensed with a Creative commons (CC-BY) license, data and programming code is available on Github.

Source: Pelagios Commons Blog (dead link) (Wayback)

More information about the project can be found on the reports shared on the Pelagios blog:


 * Introduction to the project (dead link) (Wayback)
 * Final report (dead link) (Wayback)

Note: the Pelagios Commons blog was discontinued and all content discarded in 2020.