Re: [OSM-talk] NYPL / map-vectorizer - An open-source map vectorizer

2014-01-07 Thread Gregory
Fowarding this to the historic mailing list, which may be interested. Although I'm not too impressed with the example picture on the blog post. Greg. On 6 January 2014 22:36, Maurizio Napolitano napoo...@gmail.com wrote: The lab of the New York Public Library created this software to

Re: [OSM-talk] NYPL / map-vectorizer - An open-source map vectorizer

2014-01-07 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Monday 06 January 2014, Maurizio Napolitano wrote: The lab of the New York Public Library created this software to automate and extract gis data from scanned maps http://www.gislounge.com/automating-extracting-gis-data-scanned-maps/ Note for vectorizing buildings there have also been

Re: [OSM-talk] NYPL / map-vectorizer - An open-source map vectorizer

2014-01-07 Thread Lester Caine
Gregory wrote: Although I'm not too impressed with the example picture on the blog post. Ditto Gregory Quality looks similar to the digitization of pdf plans in France. The raw outline may be vaguely useful, but a lot of fine detail simply gets lost? The digitized versions may be useful as

Re: [OSM-talk] NYPL / map-vectorizer - An open-source map vectorizer

2014-01-07 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 7 January 2014 14:35, Christoph Hormann chris_horm...@gmx.de wrote: On Monday 06 January 2014, Maurizio Napolitano wrote: The lab of the New York Public Library created this software to automate and extract gis data from scanned maps

Re: [OSM-talk] NYPL / map-vectorizer - An open-source map vectorizer

2014-01-07 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Tuesday 07 January 2014, andrzej zaborowski wrote: The problem with potrace is that it needs exact colours without the imperfections of paper drawings and scanner noise. I imagine the NYPL tool is better adapted to scanned material. Well - i have not tested it so i can't really tell. In

[OSM-talk] NYPL / map-vectorizer - An open-source map vectorizer

2014-01-06 Thread Maurizio Napolitano
The lab of the New York Public Library created this software to automate and extract gis data from scanned maps http://www.gislounge.com/automating-extracting-gis-data-scanned-maps/ code: https://github.com/NYPL/map-vectorizer license: MIT Thanks to Markus Neteler for the reporting --