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 = ; const groma = "type": "Feature" "properties": {} "geometry": "type": "Point" "coordinates": 13592042 45227991 ; let limitatio = ;/* limitatio now holds the GeoJSON for the heredia and roads
in the Browser
Reference
limitatio(groma[, bearing])
Parameters
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groma - GeoJSON Point Feature - central survey point
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bearing - number - bearing of the survey in degrees from north clockwise
Output
- returns a GeoJSON Feature Collection of the heredia grid and roads