Bob Eisenman Posted December 9, 2018 Share Posted December 9, 2018 I read about the (2,000 km) ancient road from the Canterbury UK to Rome called Via Fracigena http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20181203-a-1000-year-old-road-lost-to-time And made a Google My Map from the kml files From kml files for each country found here: http://www.urcamino.com/via-francigena/navigation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chriull Posted December 9, 2018 Share Posted December 9, 2018 5 minutes ago, Bob Eisenman said: http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20181203-a-1000-year-old-road-lost-to-time Looking at the article i understood why its in the offtopic section: Such roads give too much headache with an EUC 😎 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Eisenman Posted December 9, 2018 Author Share Posted December 9, 2018 8 hours ago, Chriull said: Such roads give too much headache with an EUC 😎 Keep looking..... Google Street view gives some insight into overlapping roads and junctions of roads and diverging 'ancient path' traces after you load the kml into Google Earth. French farmland looks typicalky flat, Swiss Alps have some interesting looking routes. Your cobble stone example of the ancient road is largely non existent. The image below is an example of where the ancient route (purple) diverges from connecting Google Street view routes(s) shown in blue. If you tap the Google street view adjacent to a diverging section ancient path you can look down the ancient path a bit. Or here where Street View ends but the ancient route goes on Another example of a place where the ancient road (goes right) diverges from Google Street view (goes left) Ancient road route goes right: Or this point of diversion between coverage in Google Street view and this view of the ancient road @Chriull It's not that your comment has merit by being associated with the inclusion of your picture choice in the author's story.....it's just too narrow of an opinion given the possibilities of the topic when explored in part or in whole. The author states that the obscurity of the path was high and that 'Caselli's' choices were often based on 'oldest path' from point A to point B from conversations among the routes modern discoverers. "“I would go into a town and ask the local people, ‘What’s the oldest route from here to there’,” he said. “And it worked, because the local memory of these paths still exists.” Caselli walked all the way from Canterbury to Rome" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Eisenman Posted December 9, 2018 Author Share Posted December 9, 2018 If the obscurity of the original path(s) from Canterbury to Rome is a source of authenticity frustration but you still want to keep focused on the Roman Empire then Hadrian's Wall in the UK might be worth a visit. It was built to fortify the northern reaches of the Roman Empire from invasion by the people north of the wall in what is now the UK. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian's_Wall But....riding an EUC along it might be too difficult. An article described virtual visiting Hadrian's Wall https://www.anglotopia.net/british-history/google-streetview-captures-virtual-hadrians-wall-and-pennine-way/ The Google Street view of part of Hadrian's Wall starts here, next to the two standing people: https://goo.gl/maps/v3uDJ https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-32736667 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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