[prmph]

Very interesting project! The Roman world really comes alive this this.

A pet peeve of mine though (and a bit OT):

I know it is not your fault, since this is inbuilt behavior, but I cannot for the life of me understand why almost all map widgets now have this behavior when as you are scrolling the whole page and happen to go over the map, suddenly the scrolling motion is used to zoom out the map, which thus quickly collapses into a thumbnail or a dot. It always drives me nuts when it occurs, a total fail of a UI/UX design. What was wrong with pinching to zoom out??

Not sure, but I think Google Map started this trend. I wonder if these map widget designers actually test the interaction with actual users.