0.1.0 • Published 6 years ago
limitatio v0.1.0
Calculate Roman Centuriation
Background
Centuriation was a surveying method used by the Romans during the late Repulican and early empire to divide land into parcels. This module calculates the heredia (land allotments) and roads of centuriation given a central survey point or groma.
For a more in depth overview of centuriation wikipedia has a good explanation
Installation
npm install limitatio
in Node
const limitatio = require('limitatio');
const groma = {
"type": "Feature",
"properties": {},
"geometry": {
"type": "Point",
"coordinates": [
13.592042,
45.227991
]
}
};
let limitatio = limitatio(groma, 9);
/* limitatio now holds the GeoJSON for the heredia and roads
in the Browser
<script src="https://unpkg.com/limitatio.min.js"></script>
Reference
limitatio(groma, bearing)
Parameters
groma - GeoJSON Point Feature - central survey point
bearing - number - bearing of the survey in degrees from north clockwise
Output
- returns a GeoJSON Feature Collection of the heredia grid and roads
0.1.0
6 years ago