12-31-2013, 10:30 AM
Quote:I think this site realy needs updating.. There is an Isca listed, at Cearleon, but no Isca Dunomniorum...Exeter. In fact nothing is lisdted west of Dunonovaria.. Are there reasons why or am I missing something?Possibly. In the Understanding Orbis tab, the creators explain that "the model is in the first instance confined to the main arterial roads and other essential connectors of the Roman road network instead of seeking to reproduce it in its (known) entirety. Many minor rivers that are not included would have been navigated by rafts and shallow boats. The number of potential sea routes is vast, constrained only by the number of points of anchorage that might be connected across maritime space. By necessity and design, ORBIS models a simplified version of Roman connectivity. By necessity, given the workload associated with any serious attempt to track down every single Roman road and every navigable river, and especially with the computational burden of simulating discrete outcomes for tens of thousands of often only marginally different sea routes."
I suppose most users would be more concerned to learn how long it would take to get (say) from Rome to the provincial capital at London, or even from London to the frontier at Carlisle. It gives us a ballpark figure to play with. I don't think the creators intended to be exhaustive. Life's too short ... :wink:
