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An open-source map vectorizer

3 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 1 story, 2 comments · first 2013-08-28 · latest 2015-06-25

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  1. Indeed! Map vectorization is one the things NYPL Labs is actively working on: https://github.com/nypl/map-vectorizer It's designed to work primarily with old fire insurance atlases (e.g. Sanborns) and is a bunch of hand-tuned heuristics.…
    comment by riordan · 2015-06-25 · in Ask HN: Open source OCR library?
  2. …we're focused on right now: * Improving performance of CV recognition of historical buildings [ https://github.com/nypl/map-vectorizer ] from insurance atlases. * Parsing data from historical records. We love old documents that are…
    comment by riordan · 2015-01-30 · in NYC Space/Time Directory