As the saying goes “All Roads lead to Rome”, is geographically obvious at least in Europe but the more interesting question on this quest for mobility is – if you ever to travel to Rome from a remote corner of Europe which route would you take?
Do all roads lead to Rome? © 2015 moovel Group GmbH
In case you were wondering, there are more than half a billion routes that one can take across Europe to reach Roma Aeterna.
Hey Siri, Can you show the route from 486,713 “Starting points” to Rome!
Obviously, Siri was not going to be pleased with that request. The Moovellabs teams used GraphHopper and OpenStreetMap data on a MacBook Pro (Apple fan rejoicing
Do all roads really lead to Rome? This is the question that bugged us all summer … But now we finally solved the biggest unsolved quest of mobility. – Raphael, Moovellabs
All Roads lead to Rome, but then which one do you take?
In case you were wondering, there are more than half a billion routes that one can take across Europe to reach Roma Aeterna.
To approach one of the biggest unsolved quests of mobility, the first question we asked ourselves was: Where do you start, when you want to know every road to Rome? – Moovellabs
In order to answer that question, they created a 26,503,452 km² grid covering the whole of Europe; assigned each cell in this grid as a starting point, ending up with 486,713 starting points to find out the route to Rome.
Hey Siri, Can you show the route from 486,713 “Starting points” to Rome!
Obviously, Siri was not going to be pleased with that request. The Moovellabs teams used GraphHopper and OpenStreetMap data on a MacBook Pro (Apple fan rejoicing