OpenStreetMap
Using drawing tablets to improve mapping productivity
Postat de EnumMapper pe 20 iunie 2023 în EnglishRecently 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
Discuție
Comentariu de la SherbetS pe 21 iunie 2023 la 14:33
How well does panning the map work?
Comentariu de la EnumMapper pe 21 iunie 2023 la 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).
Comentariu de la ceyu pe 2 iulie 2023 la 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?
Comentariu de la JIBEC pe 3 iulie 2023 la 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
Comentariu de la EnumMapper pe 5 iulie 2023 la 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!
Comentariu de la EnumMapper pe 5 iulie 2023 la 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 :)