[Qgis-user] QGIS with digitizing board/tablet

[Bo Victor Thomsen]

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: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 
> <mailto: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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