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A Street Map of New York City in the 1800s
- dalerus 10y agoWow, that's an amazing level of dedication to mapping this all out. Looking at the about page, it looks like an good exercise in machine learning. The developer talks about the process of generating the test data here: http://www.danvk.org/wp/2013-04-20/generating-training-data/ http://www.danvk.org/wp/2013-04-20/generating-training-data/
- Lanzaa 10y agoThis looks like a very similar problem to the one dropbox wrote about in "Fast and Accurate Document Detection for Scanning": https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/08/fast-and-accurate-document-detection-for-scanning/ https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/08/fast-and-accurate-doc... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12254517 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12254517
- tqkxzugoaupvwqr 10y agoI was under the impression he created Google Street View from old photos. The disappointment was big when it turned out the photos are only georeferenced and presented as markers on the map.
- ekianjo 10y agoYeah. That was a pretty misleading title.
- erikstarck 10y agoHe should add the photos to Mapillary, the open source version of Google Street View.
- aw3c2 10y agoNo, Mapillary is not about history photos.
- petern 10y agoI can be, since the time perspective is maintained and can be filtered out, see http://blog.mapillary.com/update/2016/03/21/mapillary-js-slider.html http://blog.mapillary.com/update/2016/03/21/mapillary-js-sli...
- mtmail 10y agoMapillary isn't open source. One can fork the recently announced https://github.com/openstreetview https://github.com/openstreetview though.
- petern 10y agoWe are open sourcing anything that makes sense to do and can be reused by others, like https://github.com/mapillary/OpenSfM https://github.com/mapillary/OpenSfM, traffico.io/examples.html and are working on open sourcing the apps too. However, putting out the docker setup of the backend is more hassle than use to anyone. disclaimer: I am part of the Mapillary team.
- d0ugie 10y agoWhatever, I'm still impressed. OP meant "Street View" in the figurative sense.
- jasonkester 10y agoAmazing thing I learned today: The "To Let" sign you stick on your apartment when you want to rent it has not changed at all in over a hundred years. http://static6.techinsider.io/image/55fec4ecdd0895a9578b45e7-1200/william-street-and-maiden-lane-1915.jpg http://static6.techinsider.io/image/55fec4ecdd0895a9578b45e7... http://static1.techinsider.io/image/55fec4ecdd0895a9578b45e8-1200/maiden-lane-and-pearl-street-1914.jpg http://static1.techinsider.io/image/55fec4ecdd0895a9578b45e8... There are several more examples in the article's collection, all identical to the ones today, down to the font face, size, and use of white space.
- nerfhammer 10y agoAmericans don't use that phrase anymore, only the British/commonwealth still do
- erez 10y agoI was more surprised by the title of the article than by the content of it. Looks like editors are writing "ready-to-reddit" headlines now.
- jhardcastle 10y agoSo proud to see DanVK on the front page of HN. Way to go Dan!
- Fifer82 10y agoAlways something amazing about old photos. Always looks much better but I know in reality I probably would have lived in a ditch and died young. Would welcome a world with fewer people though.
- eddieroger 10y agoHere's the actual site: https://www.oldnyc.org/ https://www.oldnyc.org/
- refurb 10y agoVersion for San Francisco: http://www.oldsf.org/ http://www.oldsf.org/