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Mapsnap: Automated Georeferencing for Historic Sanborn Insurance Maps

What happened

Over the past few months I’ve been working on mapsnap , a program to automatically georeference old insurance maps. This post explains why these maps are interesting, how mapsnap works, and why this is worth doing.

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Why it's spreading

Timeline

  1. First appeared on Hacker NewsHacker News
  2. Discussion started on LobstersLobsters

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