Using drawing tablets to improve mapping productivity
20 জুন 2023 তারিখে English ভাষায় EnumMapper কর্তৃক প্রকাশনাRecently I purchased a Wacom One drawing tablet. It’s basically a digital pen that acts as a mouse. Using FastDraw in JOSM, this can boost mapping efficiency significantly, especially when drawing curves.
Demo
- Drawing highways: https://vimeo.com/838058803
- Drawing mountain woods: https://vimeo.com/838063094
আলোচনা
21 জুন 2023 14:33-এ-এ SherbetS কর্তৃক করা মন্তব্য
How well does panning the map work?
21 জুন 2023 20:00-এ-এ EnumMapper কর্তৃক করা মন্তব্য
It works well. In practice my left hand is on the left Ctrl key and right hand holding the pen. When I need to pan the map, I hold Ctrl and move the pen (that’s equal to moving the mouse with right key down).
2 জুলাই 2023 11:42-এ-এ ceyu কর্তৃক করা মন্তব্য
It seems like it takes longer to draw straight segments with few nodes. Maybe you could draw the straight segments just like the curves and then use the way simplification tool (Shift + Y) to get rid of superfluous nodes?
3 জুলাই 2023 09:28-এ-এ JIBEC কর্তৃক করা মন্তব্য
It makes sense to use this, but the first video shows a lot of points outside of the path. Which is not a good example for newcomers :p
You’ll still have to use the W shortcut to edit the path, the mouse to select a group of points to move them. It is an interesting technic anyway, it may be more efficient for some people.
Thanks for sharing it
5 জুলাই 2023 15:06-এ-এ EnumMapper কর্তৃক করা মন্তব্য
@ceyu It seems like it takes longer to draw straight segments with few nodes. Maybe you could draw the straight segments just like the curves and then use the way simplification tool (Shift + Y) to get rid of superfluous nodes?
Indeed to draw straight lines mouse and keyboard are still the best. Actually with FastDraw it can automatically simplify the superfluous nodes!
5 জুলাই 2023 15:08-এ-এ EnumMapper কর্তৃক করা মন্তব্য
@JIBEC Yes I’m still getting used to it :) It’s not a very precise tool so might need some post-editing on the lines :)