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Text extracted from digitised maps of eastern Africa circa 1880-1940
This dataset comprises an Excel spreadsheet of text extracted from almost 2,000 digital images of maps and documents held in the War Office Archive, covering a large part of eastern Africa between c.1880 and 1940. The items were catalogued and digitised with generous funding from Indigo Trust. The harvested text...Dykes, Nick
War Office Archive, place names, text extraction, military maps, East Africa, computer vision, land use, colonial history, and ethnography