Gallery: Here Are All the Roads That Lead to Rome
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A new infographic investigates if all roads really do lead to Rome.
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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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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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The more traversed the road, the darker the line. Here you see a lot of interstates.
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They repeated this process for capital cities in Europe to visualize the road networks.
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And the US.
