There's also this website which shows ancient Roman roads: https://itiner-e.org/. Note that some roads are speculative / hypothetical though. But regardless it's also a cool road map related to Rome.
That was a nice project. Gave GraphHopper some visibility :)
OpenCage did an interview with one of the creators Raphael Reimann:
https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/135637030948/open-geo-int...
btw: 2019 moovel kind of merged together with FreeNow (formerly mytaxi) which was recently aquired by Lyft...
cant any point on the map with a road be a rome?
Yes, even ferries in Scandinavia can be roads when it makes for a better map… Or not ferries in the Mediterranean when it doesn’t.
Honestly I think this part
> The resulting images bring insights into the ways in which road infrastructure reflect regional, political and geographical situations.
should just be taken as pseudo-profound art fluff. Are you telling me all Greek commercial transport goes straight through non-Schengen instead of just ferrying across?