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Show HN: I am building a map of people who lived in the Roman Empire

Quality: 8/10 Relevance: 9/10

Summary

A project visualizes approximately 250,000 Roman inscriptions from the Epigraphic Database Clauss-Slaby (EDCS) with AI-extracted name data (praenomen, nomen, cognomen, status, gender). The interactive map supports zooming, marker details, search/browse, and CSV/JSON exports, but notes 80-85% accuracy and a flag-entry mechanism for corrections. Data provenance includes EDCS, LIRE, EDH, Trismegistos, map tiles from DARe, and derived data licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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