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duskpeterson ([personal profile] duskpeterson) wrote in [community profile] historium2019-04-20 03:39 pm

Resource for folks writing stories set in the classical world

Orbis: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World. Works best with Chrome or Safari browsers. Calculate how long, and how expensive, any journey is throughout the Roman Empire. You can change such factors as season and mode of travel.

(*Trying not to squee too loudly.*)

(*But I once spent days trying to calculate some characters' travel time for an ancient world AU. I calculated that journey in fifteen seconds flat with this tool.*)


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