Roman roads of Gaul 10 May 2019 -- Buy high-res file -- Notes: This was an interesting map to make, but I can’t say it was fun all the time. Generally I enjoyed the process, but it was far more challenging than I had anticipated. I go over some of the challenges in my first Gaul live stream on YouTube. I’m also preoccupied right now with finding a job, which is why I had to stop working on this for a while. ...
5 February 2018 France has shrunk This is a map I made for Catholic GIS, a great organization that I worked for a couple years back. My content was never published, so I’m sharing it now here. Earlier I saw Émile Cheysson’s groundbreaking 1888 visualization, titled Accélération des voyages en France. Cheysson saw that as travel improved over the last 200 years, the country of France had essentially shrunk. ...
Roman Roads 3 June 2017 -- Buy high-res file -- It’s finally done. A subway-style diagram of the major Roman roads, based on the Empire of ca. 125 AD. Creating this required far more research than I had expected—there is not a single consistent source that was particularly good for this. Huge shoutout to: Stanford’s ORBIS model, The Pelagios Project, and the Antonine Itinerary (found a full PDF online but lost the url). ...