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

[Rob Warren]

Could you provide some background on these methods so that the rasterizer might be improved? -rhw

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> Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 11:38:33 -0500
> From: Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net>
> To: historic at openstreetmap.org
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> On 1/7/14 8:08 AM, Gregory wrote:
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
> yeah, i used to work on stuff like this back in the late 80s and early 90s
> (with imagery of the real world, not digitized maps). this project appears
> to _not_ be applying a lot of techniques that were known back then, and
> i'm sure the state of the art has advanced since i worked in the field.
> 
> richard