About Roman Roads Map

An interactive map of every known Roman road, styled by how certain each route is. Find the Roman roads near you, from Watling Street to the Via Appia.

Roman Roads Map is a free, single-purpose website. It is built to be useful on its own: you can explore the map, share a link to exactly what you are looking at, embed it on your own page or download an image of it. Everything is made from open data, and the credits are on the data sources page.

Who runs it

This site is run by Chris Barnes, a sole trader (England and Wales). It is one of a small family of map sites; you can find the others in the "More maps" list at the bottom of every page.

How accurate is it?

We show the data as its authors published it, and we try to be honest about how certain it is. Where something is a best guess, the map says so. If you spot a mistake in how we display or describe the data, please tell us.

How it is paid for

The site is free to use. It may show adverts, and it offers an optional email newsletter. We do not sell your personal data.

Why this site exists

We wanted one place where you could see the whole Roman road network, find the roads closest to home, and be told straight away how much of each line is known and how much is educated guesswork. Most Roman road maps draw everything the same way, which makes a conjecture look as solid as a surveyed road. This one does not.

How the map is made

The roads come from Itiner-e, a free digital atlas of ancient roads by Brughmans, Pažout, de Soto and Bjerregaard Vahlstrup (version 2024 1.3, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.17122148, licence CC BY 4.0). Roman place names come from the Pleiades gazetteer, the modern basemap is OpenStreetMap, and the lengths, country and county figures on this site are worked out from the Itiner-e lines by a script that runs the same way each time. We do not draw or edit the roads by hand, and we do not add roads of our own. The full list of credits and licences is on the data sources page.