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The Data

Made from data, not imagined

Detail of the Roman roads map: Italy and GreeceI

The data

Every line on a Cartouche map comes from a published dataset: Roman roads from Itiner-e, ancient places from Pleiades, American trails and battlefields from the National Park Service, people and dates from Wikidata.

Detail of the Trails West map: shaded relief of the RockiesII

The land

Mountains are shaded and hachured from Copernicus satellite elevation; coastlines, rivers and lakes come from Natural Earth. The relief is computed, not drawn by hand.

Detail of the Civil War battlefields map: battles and labelsIII

The engraving

Labels are placed by hand where they read best, in the colours and type of a late-19th-century atlas. Then each map is checked against its sources before it goes to print.

Sources and licences

Credits for each map

The full data credits for every Cartouche map, listed by its number. Prints that use data under an attribution licence (CC BY, ODbL, Copernicus) carry the line "Map data & credits: cartouchemaps.com/the-data" and link here; maps drawn only from public-domain data are listed too.

NO. 01 · All Roads Lead to Rome

  • Roads: de Soto, P. et al. (2025) A High-Resolution Dataset of Roads of the Roman Empire: Itiner-e static version 2024. Zenodo, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.17122148, CC BY 4.0.
  • Places: Pleiades, Ancient World Mapping Center & Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, CC BY 3.0.
  • Coasts, rivers and boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).
  • Relief: Copernicus DEM GLO-90, © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved.
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NO. 02 · The Holy Land in the Time of Jesus

  • Roads: de Soto, P. et al. (2025) A High-Resolution Dataset of Roads of the Roman Empire: Itiner-e static version 2024. Zenodo, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.17122148, CC BY 4.0.
  • Places: Pleiades, Ancient World Mapping Center & Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, CC BY 3.0.
  • Coasts, rivers and boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).
  • Relief: Copernicus DEM GLO-90, © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved.

NO. 03 · The Trails West

  • Trail routes: National Park Service, National Trails Office (public domain).
  • Coasts, rivers and boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).
  • Relief: Copernicus DEM GLO-90, © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved.
  • Dates, coordinates and relationships: Wikidata (CC0).

NO. 04 · Famous Coins of Rome

  • Coin types after RRC (Crawford) and RIC catalogues; engravings drawn from reference photos of real coins (sources: data/lineage/coins_ref/sources.csv).

NO. 05 · The Julio-Claudians

  • Dates, coordinates and relationships: Wikidata (CC0).

NO. 06 · The Flavians

  • Dates, coordinates and relationships: Wikidata (CC0).

NO. 07 · The House of Constantine

  • Dates, coordinates and relationships: Wikidata (CC0).

NO. 08 · The Battlefields of the Civil War

  • Battles, dates, results and casualties: Civil War Sites Advisory Commission, National Park Service, American Battlefield Protection Program (public domain).
  • Coasts, rivers and boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).
  • Relief: Copernicus DEM GLO-90, © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved.
  • Dates, coordinates and relationships: Wikidata (CC0).

NO. 09 · The Union & the Confederacy

  • Coasts, rivers and boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).
  • Relief: Copernicus DEM GLO-90, © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved.

NO. 10 · The American Revolution

  • Dates, coordinates and relationships: Wikidata (CC0).
  • Coasts, rivers and boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).
  • Relief: Copernicus DEM GLO-90, © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved.

NO. 11 · The Great Campaigns

  • Place coordinates: U.S. Geological Survey, GNIS (public domain).
  • Coasts, rivers and boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).
  • Relief: Copernicus DEM GLO-90, © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved.

NO. 12 · The Civil War, Day by Day

  • Battles, dates, results and casualties: Civil War Sites Advisory Commission, National Park Service, American Battlefield Protection Program (public domain).

NO. 13 · The Presidents

  • Dates, coordinates and relationships: Wikidata (CC0).

NO. 14 · Orbis Romanus

  • Roads: de Soto, P. et al. (2025) A High-Resolution Dataset of Roads of the Roman Empire: Itiner-e static version 2024. Zenodo, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.17122148, CC BY 4.0.
  • Places: Pleiades, Ancient World Mapping Center & Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, CC BY 3.0.
  • Coasts, rivers and boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).
  • Relief: Copernicus DEM GLO-90, © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved.
  • Provincial borders and frontier: Ancient World Mapping Center geodata (github.com/AWMC/geodata), ODbL. Contains information derived from OpenStreetMap contributors.

Accuracy and corrections

Our maps are as accurate as the data behind them, and we show its limits rather than hide them. If you find an error, a misplaced battle, a wrong name or a figure that does not match its source, write to info@cartouchemaps.com. We check it against the source, correct the map file for future prints and note the change here.

Corrections so far: none yet.

How we make our maps, step by step

Each product page lists the exact credits for that map. Room photographs on this site are illustrative and AI-generated; the prints are our real maps.

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