[OSGeo-Discuss] ancient Roman maps

Miles Fidelman mfidelman at meetinghouse.net
Sun Feb 22 11:23:54 PST 2015


Figured folks here might enjoy this....

Just came back from a vacation in Italy.  Turns out that the Vatican 
Museum has this incredible collection of (paintings of) maps - mostly 
using data collected by Roman soldiers - and they turn out to be 
relatively accurate.  Some photos at 
https://plus.google.com/photos/115992823058286949429/albums/6118751220833900065

Miles Fidelman

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In practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra



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