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The main idea that we get from the passage is that ----.

Of the wealth of geographical and cartographical data
remaining from the Eastern world and the Greeks, the
Romans were interested only in those elements that
best suited their essentially practical needs. They
virtually abandoned the studies of cosmography and
mathematical geography, preferring to devote maximum
effort to land surveys carried out by specialized military
corps of land surveyors. From their topographical
surveys and on-the-spot reconnaissance of places and
cities, they formulated their itineraria scripta,
publications similar in many respects to our tourist
guides, and their itineraria picta, a kind of road map on
which they stressed only those topographical features of
use to travellers.