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Mapsnap: Automated Georeferencing for Historic Sanborn Insurance Maps
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Hacker News | Sep 15, 2026 | evakhoury
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The Sanborn maps were very expensive, very limited-run books. It runs OCR over a Sanborn map to find the street labels. The first step is to detect street labels.
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