To Thomas -
It would probably not be exceedingly difficult to create a plugin that
would let a digitizing board work with QGIS.
But just my 2 cents as an old digitizing monkey way back in history:
Productivity- and operation wise, it's a far better deal to scan your
maps - whatever size they have - at your local printing shop and then
georeference the rasterfile(s) once and for all. Trust me: It will beat
the digitizer setup almost all the time - even when you include the cost
of scanning the maps at a printing shop.
Regards
Bo Victor Thomsen
Aestas-GIS
Denmark
Den 21-02-2014 08:56, Thomas Colley skrev:
Hi Nathan
Thanks for replying. From what I can understand it's just a case of
georeferencing the drawing on the board in the same way as you would a
raster on the screen.
ArcMap takes a text file with at least 4 coordinate pairs from the
drawing on the board that it uses to tie the digitizing area into the
on screen CRS.
So I hope it might be relatively easy to implement a plugin that can
accept these coordinates then apply some sort of shift to any input
from the drawing board.
I'll try and get some more info on how it works in ArcMap.
Thanks again
Tom
*From:*Nathan Woodrow [mailto:[email protected]]
*Sent:* 20 February 2014 12:54
*To:* Thomas Colley
*Cc:* qgis-user
*Subject:* Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS with digitizing board/tablet
Hey Thomas,
Wouldn't it just pick it up like a mouse? Qt does have support for
more pressure based devices but QGIS doesn't take advantage of it.
It will work fine if it acts like a mouse though.
- Nathan
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:50 PM, Thomas Colley
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi
Is it possible to use QGIS with a digitizing board/tablet?
I've had a search but can't find any information on this.
The board I am trying to use is a CalComp DrawingBoard III that our
users have been using with ArcMap.
If it's not currently possible in QGIS I will look at creating a
plugin for it.
Thanks
Tom
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