Vor kurzem war ich besessen von der „Grand Trunk Road“, die seit mindestens 2.500 Jahren das heutige Afghanistan und Myanmar verbindet – also habe ich eine GROSSE Karte davon gemacht! (Nach links wischen)

Hello everyone cartographer from France here, but spending most of my free time making maps of South Asia these days…

So…

The Grand Trunk Road 🌼🚚🦅🧿

It is one of Asia’s longest and oldest roads and connects the rugged and arid hinterland of Afghanistan to the wet, lush, coastal hills of eastern Bengladesh.

The first road was built during the third century BCE and called Uttarapatha, the northern way. After centuries of continuous use, realignment, renaming, wars, conquest, and trade, the age-old road is now part of a highway system used in four different countries by hundred of thousands of trucks, cars, motorbikes and people everyday.

Before partition and modern borders, Kipling wrote in Kim: « truly the Grand Trunk Road is a wonderful spectacle. It runs straight, bearing without crowding India’s traffic for fifteen hundred miles – such a river of life as nowhere else exists in the world. »

My small (and fun) tribute to this Great Road I hope to roam in one go, be it on foot, on a bike or a motor bike, who’s coming with me?

Cool detail: I used a font from Ektype (design studio based in Mumbai) for the title, a font inspired by truck art, hand painted signs of North India and Pakistan… 🙂

More maps of South Asia here, on my [website](https://www.perrinremonte.com/subcontinent-1)

Read more about the GT road [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Trunk_Road)!

As someone who has spent 2 hours every day travelling on a teeny tiny portion of this road for a good part of last decade, I love your work

There is a small stretch of this road that has been preserved in all its ancient glory right next to Nicholson Monument in Taxila. Ill see if I can find an image of that online.‘

Very nice looking work and lots of info there as well. Congrats! Maybe it’s there and I did’t see it, but an altitude chart could be a nice touch as well.

It’s a thing of beauty! Is this final or are you still open to corrections?

This road holds a lot of meaning to us Punjabis and honestly everyone on the northern Indian subcontinent. Thanks for this beautiful work of art. To show some appreciation, I give you the song of my people, enjoy!

https://youtu.be/Sq_m3PrWrrU?si=GkkhFHIMFFlv0by9

This is really cool and I appreciate anyone spending their time creating something original with real data.

If I can suggest one thing; it would be cool if the line graph representing altitudes lined up vertically with each of the numbered stops along the route. Other than that I really enjoyed this, so thank you mate.

I really enjoyed this map, and the historical aspect. May I ask what software you are using? And if the border has any special meaning?