Built-Up Areas of Nineteenth-Century Britain. An integrated methodology for Extracting High-resolution Urban Footprints from Historical Maps
Jupyter Notebook and Python >= 3.9
To install the packages from the requirements file, run in a code cell.
!pip install -r requirements.txt
yfaula_app is not mandatory to use the notebooks but
if you want to run yfaula_app(for line removal), OpenCV must be installed first by following the commands in the file name install_opencv_commands.txt in the directory yfaula_app.
Please take into account the installation folder and modify the path accordingly in the Makefile. Then type
make to install the software.
Models are available to download from the Zeonodo repository, below:
Litvine, A., Starzec, A., Coustaty, M., Véronique, E., Faula, Y., & Shaw-taylor, L. (2025). Built-up areas of Britain, 1790s-1830S (1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5534677
The code is archived on Zenodo at:
Please quote: REF TBA