There is also gdal_polygonize and the reverse gdal_rasterize. I've had best success with these for large contiguous areas of the same value, like land cover/class.
http://gdal.org/gdal_polygonize.html http://gdal.org/gdal_rasterize.html Regards, Eli On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 3:58 AM, Zhengfan Lin <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 for this. I'm also working on a huge digitalizing project. Need some > handy tools. > > I've been searching for vectorizing/digitalizing tools for some time. Was > about to post a similar mail to this list, but Silva got ahead of me. :-) > > Thanks in advance. > > Zhengfan Lin > > On Aug 10, 2012 4:26 PM, "mrmmsilva" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I need suggestions for software open source that allows me to convert a >> scanned map to vector format. >> >> thank you very much. >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/Convert-a-scanned-map-to-vector-format-tp4994361.html >> Sent from the OSGeo Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
