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title: "Introducing mapsnap: Automated Georeferencing for Historic Sanborn Insurance Maps"
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summary: "A new program called mapsnap has been developed to automatically georeference historic Sanborn Insurance Maps, which document urban spaces in the United States from roughly 1870 to 1960. The georeferenced maps are available for browsing at mapsnap.org."
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# Introducing mapsnap: Automated Georeferencing for Historic Sanborn Insurance Maps

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**Published:** 2026-10-07T13:27:58.000Z
**Category:** Releases
**Topics:** coding

## Summary

A new program called mapsnap has been developed to automatically georeference historic Sanborn Insurance Maps, which document urban spaces in the United States from roughly 1870 to 1960\. The georeferenced maps are available for browsing at mapsnap\.org\.

## Sources

- [Story source](<https://www.danvk.org/2026/09/10/mapsnap.html>)
- [Discussion](<https://lobste.rs/s/b1iafm/introducing_mapsnap_automated>)