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Vladimiro, While I can't answer why there hasn't been more published, I can confirm that the Romans were certainly capable of large scale surveys. The planning and execution of their road network required those same skills. My study of the British section of the Ravenna Cosmography indicates that the text was sampled from a map divided into areas approximately 1X2 degrees increasing in distortion from south to north, though less distorted that Ptolemy's representation. (He erred in re-assembling his data by taking a piece of Northumberland coast and inserting it into southern Scotland.) -- Tom Ikins The Roman Map of Britain http://www.romanmap.com _______________________________________________ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for the views of the author. List Information: http://www.maphist.nl Maphist mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist
