[OSM-talk] Using digital tablet for drawing maps

2010-01-25 Thread Igor Brejc
Hi everyone, I'm thinking about buying a digital tablet and use it for drawing maps in JOSM/Potlatch/... Has anyone had any experience with digital tablets and GIS work (or even better - OSM work). I'm considering buying something cheap, like Wacom Bamboo (link is below), but I don't know if it

Re: [OSM-talk] Using digital tablet for drawing maps

2010-01-25 Thread David Earl
On 25/01/2010 10:29, Igor Brejc wrote: Hi everyone, I'm thinking about buying a digital tablet and use it for drawing maps in JOSM/Potlatch/... Has anyone had any experience with digital tablets and GIS work (or even better - OSM work). I'm considering buying something cheap, like Wacom

Re: [OSM-talk] Using digital tablet for drawing maps

2010-01-25 Thread Chris Browet
Funny you speak about that... I recently found back my ages old Wacom Tablet and tried it with Merkaartor. Looks like Qt has some kind of builtin supoort for tablets (or was it Windows 7?) but it worked out-of-the-box (in tablet mode, not mouse emulation). That made me add a hand grabbing icon

Re: [OSM-talk] Using digital tablet for drawing maps

2010-01-25 Thread Igor Brejc
David, Yes, I noticed this clicking problem with JOSM myself, and it is annoying. Is it Java or just JOSM-specific problem? In OS (Windows at least), the mouse-down and mouse-up events are treated separately, so I don't see why it would be problem if the mouse moves in between. Anyway, thanks for

Re: [OSM-talk] Using digital tablet for drawing maps

2010-01-25 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
David Earl david at frankieandshadow.com writes: I guess it depends who you ask. I think it's that Java and Windows take a different view about what constitutes a click as a combination of up and down events, rather than being a bug in anything. Having said that, the Java treatment is

Re: [OSM-talk] Using digital tablet for drawing maps

2010-01-25 Thread Igor Brejc
Cool, good to know. Igor On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Chris Browet c...@semperpax.com wrote: Funny you speak about that... I recently found back my ages old Wacom Tablet and tried it with Merkaartor. Looks like Qt has some kind of builtin supoort for tablets (or was it Windows 7?)