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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2706332, member: 76194&quot;]Romans did have maps of sorts depicting bird&#039;s eye view of roads and towns. Although they didn&#039;t rely on accurate scales and coordinates like we do, they had so-called itineraries that roughly guided travelers from town to town by showing them which road to take. Some were so large they mapped the entire road network of the empire and all significant towns.</p><p><br /></p><p>Below is but two small fragment of the Tabula Peutigenariana...the most famous surviving itinerary of the Roman world.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]610073[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]610076[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Then there is the famous 3rd century map of the city of Rome (not to scale) of which large fragments still survive to this day....the Forma Urbis. Here are a few fragments below to give you an idea of what it looks like.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]610074[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]610075[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Bird&#039;s eye view indeed! The Romans were not the first though. Greeks were doing this before the Romans. How else do you think the phalanxes knew which roads to take to get to an enemy city far away, and where to stop to rest?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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