I agree with you 100% on georeferencing scanned rasters being a much better option! There wouldn't even be any cost to the scanning as we have a large format scanner and many of the plans are electronic anyway meaning they would have to be printed off to be put onto the board and digitised!
I thought that maybe I was missing something as I'm not from a hardcore drawing background as the users were maintaining that they needed to use the boards even when I showed them the excellent Georeferencer in QGIS. It sounds like this might just be an excuse for them not wanting to move away from ArcGIS! Thanks very much for your reply Tom From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bo Victor Thomsen Sent: 21 February 2014 09:03 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS with digitizing board/tablet 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]> 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 _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
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