I thought I would send this question again, as I did not seem to get much
response.

I would think somebody out there has come across this problem.

This is a question my company has been struggling with for several years since
our Microstation Workstation went down several years ago and made it
impossible
to use their proprietory digitizer tablet.  We went along without a
digitizer until about
9 months ago, when we purchased a Calcomp DrawingBoard III (A very nice tablet
by the way).

I spent many an hour and lots of phone calls to various professionals
trying to
determine the best software to manage our digitizing in.  It had to support
many
projections and hopefully translate and convert to our GIS, which is
Mapinfo.  I asked
about the latest versions of Intergraph Geographics, ArcView, ArcInfo,
Autocad Mapper,
etc.  But, I got mixed views on all of them.

So 9 months later we are limping along with the digitizer plugged directly
into MapInfo.
This has worked, but does not produce the same quality or have the editing
capabilities
as Microstation, obviously.  Now to ask the MapInfo community what they use
for serious
digitzing?  Again we would like to have various projections available.
Streaming input and
on the fly editing of points, line segments, etc.  And be able to dump
directly into Mapinfo
or translate to a compatible format.  It would be nice to do enter
attributes while digitizing
and to save digitizer control point files for faster setup of production maps.

What do people use out there with MapInfo?  Autocad?  ArcInfo?  Didger?
Grass?



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