[HOT] Using a pen tablet for mapping input

[Lists]

Thanks everyone! This is exactly what I wanted to know.  I'm thinking that a pen and tablet will be easier for me to control. And I am also trying to get away from Windoze.


Bryan Sayer 

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From: Julio Costa Zambelli <julio.costa at openstreetmap.cl> 
Date: 03/14/2018  9:07 AM  (GMT-05:00) 
To: Lists <blslists at gmail.com> 
Cc: hot <hot at openstreetmap.org> 
Subject: Re: [HOT] Using a pen tablet for mapping input 

I have been using a Wacom Intuos CTL-490 (probably the cheapest Wacom available, around USD110 here) combined with JOSM and its FastDraw plugin for over a year now. All of this in Ubuntu(Gnome) 16.04. 

They work great together, specially if you want to map forests, woods, reservoirs, riverbanks and any other large polygon. Take into consideration that you will have to tune the preferences of the FastDraw plugin to balance node density and shape quality. You do not want to make something with an excesive number of nodes but at the same time you want to take advantage of the level of detail that the pen alows you to get. 

Hope this helps you.

   

Julio Costa Zambelli
Fundación OpenStreetMap Chile

julio.costa at openstreetmap.cl

https://www.openstreetmap.cl/
Cel: +56(9)89981083

On 13 March 2018 at 21:41, Lists <blslists at gmail.com> wrote:

    
Does anyone know if it is possible to use a pen tablet input device, ideally in ubuntu, to do the mapping for the missing maps? If so, can anyone recommend a specific tablet?


Bryan Sayer 
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