Vias sternere con Open Street Map. L'idea di Roman Street Map (RSM): ipotesi preliminari

Open Street Map is a widely known project intended to create collaborative maps and to freely share a modern road cartography. The idea we present in this contribution consists in a project, called Roman Street Map (RSM), that repeats – with some modifications – the methods, structures and software of OSM in order to map roman roads in a collaborative and open way. Like in OSM, users can insert new tracks reconstructed according to archaeological data and topographical studies or mapped during survey with GPS. Some markers will sign validation points, i.e. those elements that justify the road reconstruction (toponyms, segments of roman street, milestones, etc.). The proposals of path will be evaluated by automatic systems and by scientific regional commissions, in order to class the paths in different levels according to historical reliability criteria. At last, all tracks will be available at RSM url (http://www.romanstreetmap.org) and downloadable in .gpx or .osm format