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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks for that Benoit! I’m worried that something as new and radical as FORTRAN IV code from 1986 might be too much of a leap forward for these users. Judging by the shade of yellow on the drawing board it’s of around the same vintage!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks again<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><br>Tom<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> qgis-user-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-user-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Benoit de Cabissole<br><b>Sent:</b> 21 February 2014 08:22<br><b>To:</b> qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS with digitizing board/tablet<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Hi Tom,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Perhaps the following reference could be of help to you when you start writing the plugin:<br>Computers&Geosciences: 1986, V12, pp175-197 - DIGMAP: a computer program for accurate acquisition by digitizer of geographical coordinates from conformal projections. (FORTRAN IV code on a Z-80!!!)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Regards,<br>Benoit<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>On 21/02/2014 09:56, Thomas Colley wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #1010FF 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt;margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Nathan</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’ll try and get some more info on how it works in ArcMap.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks again<br>Tom</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Nathan Woodrow [mailto:madmanwoo@gmail.com] <br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Sent:</span></strong> 20 February 2014 12:54<br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>To:</span></strong> Thomas Colley<br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Cc:</span></strong> qgis-user<br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Subject:</span></strong> Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS with digitizing board/tablet</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Hey Thomas,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>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.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>- Nathan <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:50 PM, Thomas Colley <<a href="mailto:t.colley@neath-porttalbot.gov.uk">t.colley@neath-porttalbot.gov.uk</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Hi<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Is it possible to use QGIS with a digitizing board/tablet?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I’ve had a search but can’t find any information on this. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>The board I am trying to use is a CalComp DrawingBoard III that our users have been using with ArcMap.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>If it’s not currently possible in QGIS I will look at creating a plugin for it.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Thanks<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Tom<br>_______________________________________________<br>Qgis-user mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org">Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Qgis-user mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org">Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</a><o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>