A New Digital Map of Roman Britain: how to access it, how to use it, and what comes next….
We live in a digital world where seemingly unlimited information is literally at our fingertips. It is therefore both surprising and perturbing that the only readily accessible maps of Roman Britain are the unwieldy and woefully out of date paper offering from the Ordnance Survey, and Mike Bishop's digitisations based mainly on Ivan Margary's mapping from the 1950s.
For the last two years, Mike has been working on producing a new and up to date digital map of Roman Britain, which presents (as far as possible) an overview of our current understanding of the road network, along with the locations of military installations and nucleated settlement. In this talk, Mike will illustrate the finished mapping, run through the methodology used to compile the data from multiple sources, illustrate some of the issues encountered, and most importantly show how you can access this freely available work.
Finally, he will show that far from being the finished product, this work provides a baseline on which to build in the future.