The Ancient World Online: Itiner-e

[First posted in AWOL 28 May 2018, updated  10 November 2025 (new URLs)]

It’s itinerary

Itiner-e aims to host the most detailed open digital dataset of roads
in the entire Roman Empire. The data creation is a collaborative
ongoing
project edited by a scholarly community. Itiner-e allows you
to view, query and download roads.
Each road segment has a URI that allows it to be cited and
linked by external resources. It also includes a route-finding tool to
explore travel
itineries and times in the ancient world (beta version).

Go to our Tutorials page to learn how to use all functions on Itiner-e.

How to cite Itiner-e

Broughmans, T., de Soto, P., Pažout, A. and Bjerregaard Vahlstrup, p. (2024) Inner-e: The Digital Atlas of Ancient Roads. https://itiner-e.org/

License

Itiner-e: the digital atlas of ancient roads © 2024 by Brughmans, Pažout,
de Soto and Bjerregaard Vahlstrup is licensed under CC BY 4.0

Download Full Dataset

Every night a full export of all route segments is created in ndjson format, where each line is a json route segment
object.

A route segment object is structured like a GeoJSON LineString object with an additional
property
pleiadesPlaces representing the pleiades places in the vicinity of the route segment (only
applied for roads, not for rivers or sea lanes).

The static version documented in de Soto et al. (2025)
can be accessed on Zenodo:

de soto, P. et al. (2025) A High-Resoltion Dataset Of The Roman Empire: Itiner-E Static Version 2024. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/Zenodo.1

Acknowledgements

Danmarks
Frie Forskningsfond (DFF) Sapere Aude research leadership grant
(0163-00060B). Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF) Centre of
Excellence for Urban Network Evolutions (UrbNet) (DNRF119).
The Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowship (CF21-0382).

We would like to thank Aarhus University’s Past Networks team, Social Resilience Lab, Clara Filet, Maria Coto Sarmiento, David Gal, Lukas Orehøj Røpke, Amanda Leighton Spatzek, Aarhus University’s Center for Humanities Computing, Peter Bjerregaard Vahlstrup.

The Viator-e project was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Research and Universities.

Project
RTI2018-098905-J-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 and by
“ERDF A way of making Europe” by the “European Union”.