[Qgis-user] QGIS with digitizing board/tablet

[Thomas Colley]

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:madmanwoo at gmail.com] 
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
<t.colley at neath-porttalbot.gov.uk> 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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