OpenStreetMap
Using drawing tablets to improve mapping productivity
Skrevet av EnumMapper den 20 juni 2023 på English.Recently 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
Diskusjon
Kommentar fra SherbetS den 21 juni 2023 kl. 14:33
How well does panning the map work?
Kommentar fra EnumMapper den 21 juni 2023 kl. 20:00
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).
Kommentar fra ceyu den 2 juli 2023 kl. 11:42
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?
Kommentar fra JIBEC den 3 juli 2023 kl. 09:28
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
Kommentar fra EnumMapper den 5 juli 2023 kl. 15:06
@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!
Kommentar fra EnumMapper den 5 juli 2023 kl. 15:08
@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 :)