[HN Gopher] Guide to searching and annotating text on maps
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       Guide to searching and annotating text on maps
        
       Author : benbreen
       Score  : 57 points
       Date   : 2023-09-20 16:32 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (machines-reading-maps.github.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (machines-reading-maps.github.io)
        
       | fumeux_fume wrote:
       | If you need to detect text on a map for adding annotations and
       | exporting to GeoJSON, you can get started using this tool:
       | https://github.com/machines-reading-maps/Tutorials-Newslette...
        
       | choult wrote:
       | Because it wasn't wholly obvious to me, this documentation is for
       | the work available on https://www.davidrumsey.com/
        
       | joshuanapoli wrote:
       | I have a similar problem: reading engineering drawings.
        
       | is_true wrote:
       | This is great. I often search old maps because I do some metal
       | detecting and I've been thinking about building a system to find
       | similar maps based on the entities (places) in them.
       | 
       | Here's the system doing the "magic": https://knowledge-
       | computing.github.io/mapkurator-doc/#/docs/...
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       | It would be neat to be able to filter between cities/places and
       | streets.
        
         | Rygian wrote:
         | Have you watched 'Detectorists'? What do you think of it?
        
           | is_true wrote:
           | nope
        
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