Step-by-step Guide to Using MapReader

This step-by-step guide provides a logical breakdown of the steps and workflows needed for running the MapReader library.

Users should refer to the Introduction to MapReader page to understand the necessary workflows for the Classification and Text Spotting pipelines.

Note

Throughout this user guide, we will use OS maps as examples. These are provided for illustrative purposes only, users may need to change file paths etc. to suit their own needs.

• Download
  • Downloading maps from XYZ tilelayers
  • Downloading maps from IIIF servers
• Load
  • Load images (and metadata)
  • Patchify
  • Visualize (optional)
  • Further analysis/visualization (optional)
• Annotate
  • Annotate your images
  • Save your annotations
• Classify (Train and Infer)
  • Train/fine-tune a classifier
  • Infer using a fine-tuned model
• Post-processing
  • Context Post-processing
  • Occlusion Analysis
• Spot text
  • Installing dependencies
  • Advice for patch size
  • Set-up the runner
  • Run the runner
  • Scale-up to whole map
  • Geo-reference
  • Saving
  • Loading
  • Search predictions