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Georeferencing Chernarus and visiting in real life (2021)

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-09-28 Cached

This article details how to georeference the fictional map Chernarus from the DayZ game to its real-world location in Czechia using tools like QGIS and GDAL, and convert it for use on a GPS device.

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Mapsnap: Automated Georeferencing for Historic Sanborn Insurance Maps

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-09-15 Cached

Introduces mapsnap, an automated tool for georeferencing historic Sanborn insurance maps to aid in urban history research and preservation.

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Show HN: A website for exploring historical photographs of my city

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-08-12 Cached

A website called Yesterdays of Richmond allows users to explore georeferenced historical photographs of the city, featuring collections from various local institutions.

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Georeferencing Non-Gazetteered Place Names using Biological Specimen Records

arXiv cs.CL ↗ · 2026-08-10 Cached

This paper presents methods for georeferencing historical and vernacular place names found in biological specimen records that are absent from current gazetteers, comparing deterministic, probabilistic, and LLM-based approaches. Probabilistic inference achieves the highest accuracy, while LLMs offer competitive but less precise estimates.

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