Data sources & licences

Name: Roman roads, as shown on Roman Roads Map
Creator: Itiner-e
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This site is built entirely on open data and open-source software. Thank you to everyone who collected, shared and maintains it. Here is exactly what we use and the licence each part comes with.

Data version: 2024 1.3
Last refreshed: 2026-10-12

Itiner-e

Credit: Itiner-e: the digital atlas of ancient roads © Brughmans, Pažout, de Soto & Bjerregaard Vahlstrup, CC BY 4.0

Used for: Every Roman road on the map, with certainty and road type.

Licence: CC BY 4.0

Source: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17122148

Version: Static version 2024 1.3 (published 15 September 2025)

Pleiades

Credit: Pleiades: a gazetteer of past places, CC BY 3.0

Used for: Roman place names along the roads.

Licence: CC BY 3.0

Source: https://pleiades.stoa.org/

OpenStreetMap

Credit: © OpenStreetMap contributors, basemap by Protomaps, ODbL

Used for: The modern basemap.

Licence: ODbL

Source: https://protomaps.com/

GeoNames

Credit: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0

Used for: Modern town names for search (cities15000), and the towns listed near Roman roads on region pages (cities5000).

Licence: CC BY 4.0

Source: https://www.geonames.org/

OS Boundary-Line

Used for: UK nation and county boundaries, used to measure the Roman road in each part of the UK.

Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0

Source: https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/products/boundary-line

OS Open Roads

Used for: Numbered modern roads in Great Britain, to find which ones follow each named Roman road.

Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0

Source: https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/products/os-open-roads

Software

The map is drawn with MapLibre GL JS and PMTiles, and the site is built with Astro. These are open-source projects under their own licences.

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