Gallery: Here Are All the Roads That Lead to Rome

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    0 Roads to Rome

    A new infographic investigates if all roads really do lead to Rome.
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    0 Roads to Rome - Photo

    First the designers overlaid a 10,231,707 square-mile grid atop the whole of Europe, and divided it into 486,713 cells. Each cell represented a starting point for a journey beginning within that cell and ending in Rome.
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    1 Road to Romes US

    Using Graphhopper software, they calculated the fastest route from every starting point to Rome. The did the same for the US, which has 10 cities named Rome.
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    1 Roads to Romes US - Photo

    The more traversed the road, the darker the line. Here you see a lot of interstates.
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    2 New Europe

    They repeated this process for capital cities in Europe to visualize the road networks.
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    3 New US

    And the US.
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