Re:Subway-style maps of roads of the Roman Empire
by SeanLuke on Friday July 10, 2020 @12:09AM
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Among the very most famous Roman roads is the Via Aemilia (now Via Emilia), a straight-as-an-arrow road running diagonally along the edge of the mountains in Northern Italy, and connecting a string of now-famous towns: Rimini, Cesena, Forli, Imola, Bologna, Modena, Reggio Emilia, Parma, Fidenza, Piacenza. You can still bike the whole road: it's SS 9.
The "Italy" subway style map completely butchered it. For half of it, they put all the towns on an east-west line, then bent the remainder north to Piacenza. What the...? This isn't some little Roman Road: it's one of probably the top three in the world. And it's a straight line visible from space.
Re:Subway-style maps of roads of the Roman Empire
by huffmsa on Friday July 10, 2020 @04:49AM
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That's exactly what New Yorkers told Massimo Vignelli in the 70s when he redesigned the subway map for easier readability, at the expense of actually representing reality.
The "Italy" subway style map completely butchered it. For half of it, they put all the towns on an east-west line, then bent the remainder north to Piacenza. What the...? This isn't some little Roman Road: it's one of probably the top three in the world. And it's a straight line visible from space.