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

[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 several 
demonstrations based on potrace - which meanwhile features a GeoJSON 
backend that simplifies the process:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:TomChance/VectorisingStreetView
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Sorbus_x_kewensis/Vectorising_with_QGIS
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/AT/basemap

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Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/