Re: [OSM-talk] What pointing device you use for mapping?
I have not used a graphics tablet .. yet. They are popular with graphic artist I believe. However I have used a fair few track balls, mice and touch pads. Touch pads have gotten better over time, their buttons though do ware out rapidly! Mice .. very much second choice to a good track ball. The best track ball I have used was some 80 mm diameter, metal with a fair amount of inertia. It had very fine control .. yet could be rapidly spun in any direction to get to far parts quickly (requiring a number of complete revolutions), rapidly stopped and fine control regained .. all by the use of a single finger or thumb. Unfortunately that was part of a system ... not a single computer and not obtainable with reasonable money. So I use a logitech M570, the ball lacks the inertial and fine control of the better one. But I find it acceptable, particularly if you suffer any form of repetitive strain injury to the wrists. There are 5 'buttons' .. one of which is a wheel thingy too. Each function is customisable, possibly to each program/app in use. The previous model was connected by a USB cable, unfortunately no longer available. The new model has a USB dongle that wirelessly connects to the track ball. On 7/13/2016 8:00 PM, Tim Waters wrote: I use a trusty Microsoft Intellimouse (although I do not customise the buttons), but I'm really replying to an observation about a helpful tip for mapping parties and workshops. When putting on a mapping party / workshop where people bring their own laptops, bring a bag of mice for participants to use! The Missing Maps / OSM London do this and it seems as if all of them get used. (I also find it funny, how, several years ago at mapping parties we used to pass around a bag of GPS units to map, now it's a bag of mice!) Back on topic, I'd be curious to hear if the assorted map teams in companies like Mapbox etc use any specific hardware to point and map and increase productivity... Cheers, Tim On 13 July 2016 at 07:34, Oleksiy Muzalyevwrote: I also noticed that often moderately priced items are more reliable than high-end expensive ones. Probably because they are more widespread, and consequently deficiencies in design are noticed, reported, and corrected faster. The Nexus Silent Mouse costs about 20 USD. I got so accustomed to a soundless mouse that I cannot use normal mice anymore, and not only for mapping, each click sounds to me as a gunshot. That is why I keep a spare one ready. But I work sometimes in a library where it is very quiet. I also received an e-mail where it is written that a graphics tablet is being used for mapping by a correspondent's acquaintance; that a graphics tablet is really precise, helps to map quicker, and that it is so convenient that it is impossible to map without it. And that a graphics tablet must be with a zoom control. If such a graphics tablet increases productivity by say twenty or even ten percent, then it makes sense to invest in it. Because our working time costs much more in the long run. It would be interesting to hear from someone who has got firsthand experience of using a specific model of a graphics tablet for mapping. Best regards, Oleksiy On 12/07/16 22:10, Andreas Vilén wrote: Nothing fancy. Heavy osming has a tendency to break mice so I only use cheap stuff. Once I bought a fancy one but the precision was so bad I had to change back to the standard Ms mouse... /Andreas Skickat från min iPhone 12 juli 2016 kl. 10:18 skrev Oleksiy Muzalyev : I use Nexus Silent Mouse SM-8500B [1]. This mouse does not produce a "click" sound, though there is a tactile click. This type of soundless mouse makes a difference while working in an OSM editor. I like SM-8500B. I own three of them, including a spare one. It works fine on Mac and W10. There are numerous innovative pointing devices available nowadays, - graphics tablets, vertical mice, pencil mouse, etc. If you have a positive experience employing an innovative pointing device design for mapping, please, let me know. [1] https://nexustek.us/mice/sm-8500 Best regards, Oleksiy ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] What pointing device you use for mapping?
I use a trusty Microsoft Intellimouse (although I do not customise the buttons), but I'm really replying to an observation about a helpful tip for mapping parties and workshops. When putting on a mapping party / workshop where people bring their own laptops, bring a bag of mice for participants to use! The Missing Maps / OSM London do this and it seems as if all of them get used. (I also find it funny, how, several years ago at mapping parties we used to pass around a bag of GPS units to map, now it's a bag of mice!) Back on topic, I'd be curious to hear if the assorted map teams in companies like Mapbox etc use any specific hardware to point and map and increase productivity... Cheers, Tim On 13 July 2016 at 07:34, Oleksiy Muzalyevwrote: > I also noticed that often moderately priced items are more reliable than > high-end expensive ones. Probably because they are more widespread, and > consequently deficiencies in design are noticed, reported, and corrected > faster. The Nexus Silent Mouse costs about 20 USD. I got so accustomed to a > soundless mouse that I cannot use normal mice anymore, and not only for > mapping, each click sounds to me as a gunshot. That is why I keep a spare > one ready. But I work sometimes in a library where it is very quiet. > > I also received an e-mail where it is written that a graphics tablet is > being used for mapping by a correspondent's acquaintance; that a graphics > tablet is really precise, helps to map quicker, and that it is so convenient > that it is impossible to map without it. And that a graphics tablet must be > with a zoom control. > > If such a graphics tablet increases productivity by say twenty or even ten > percent, then it makes sense to invest in it. Because our working time costs > much more in the long run. It would be interesting to hear from someone who > has got firsthand experience of using a specific model of a graphics tablet > for mapping. > > Best regards, > Oleksiy > > > On 12/07/16 22:10, Andreas Vilén wrote: >> >> Nothing fancy. Heavy osming has a tendency to break mice so I only use >> cheap stuff. >> >> Once I bought a fancy one but the precision was so bad I had to change >> back to the standard Ms mouse... >> >> /Andreas >> >> Skickat från min iPhone >> >>> 12 juli 2016 kl. 10:18 skrev Oleksiy Muzalyev >>> : >>> >>> I use Nexus Silent Mouse SM-8500B [1]. This mouse does not produce a >>> "click" sound, though there is a tactile click. This type of soundless mouse >>> makes a difference while working in an OSM editor. I like SM-8500B. I own >>> three of them, including a spare one. It works fine on Mac and W10. >>> >>> There are numerous innovative pointing devices available nowadays, - >>> graphics tablets, vertical mice, pencil mouse, etc. If you have a positive >>> experience employing an innovative pointing device design for mapping, >>> please, let me know. >>> >>> [1] https://nexustek.us/mice/sm-8500 >>> >>> Best regards, >>> >>> Oleksiy >>> >>> >>> ___ >>> talk mailing list >>> talk@openstreetmap.org >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > > > ___ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] What pointing device you use for mapping?
I also noticed that often moderately priced items are more reliable than high-end expensive ones. Probably because they are more widespread, and consequently deficiencies in design are noticed, reported, and corrected faster. The Nexus Silent Mouse costs about 20 USD. I got so accustomed to a soundless mouse that I cannot use normal mice anymore, and not only for mapping, each click sounds to me as a gunshot. That is why I keep a spare one ready. But I work sometimes in a library where it is very quiet. I also received an e-mail where it is written that a graphics tablet is being used for mapping by a correspondent's acquaintance; that a graphics tablet is really precise, helps to map quicker, and that it is so convenient that it is impossible to map without it. And that a graphics tablet must be with a zoom control. If such a graphics tablet increases productivity by say twenty or even ten percent, then it makes sense to invest in it. Because our working time costs much more in the long run. It would be interesting to hear from someone who has got firsthand experience of using a specific model of a graphics tablet for mapping. Best regards, Oleksiy On 12/07/16 22:10, Andreas Vilén wrote: Nothing fancy. Heavy osming has a tendency to break mice so I only use cheap stuff. Once I bought a fancy one but the precision was so bad I had to change back to the standard Ms mouse... /Andreas Skickat från min iPhone 12 juli 2016 kl. 10:18 skrev Oleksiy Muzalyev: I use Nexus Silent Mouse SM-8500B [1]. This mouse does not produce a "click" sound, though there is a tactile click. This type of soundless mouse makes a difference while working in an OSM editor. I like SM-8500B. I own three of them, including a spare one. It works fine on Mac and W10. There are numerous innovative pointing devices available nowadays, - graphics tablets, vertical mice, pencil mouse, etc. If you have a positive experience employing an innovative pointing device design for mapping, please, let me know. [1] https://nexustek.us/mice/sm-8500 Best regards, Oleksiy ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] What pointing device you use for mapping?
Nothing fancy. Heavy osming has a tendency to break mice so I only use cheap stuff. Once I bought a fancy one but the precision was so bad I had to change back to the standard Ms mouse... /Andreas Skickat från min iPhone > 12 juli 2016 kl. 10:18 skrev Oleksiy Muzalyev: > > I use Nexus Silent Mouse SM-8500B [1]. This mouse does not produce a "click" > sound, though there is a tactile click. This type of soundless mouse makes a > difference while working in an OSM editor. I like SM-8500B. I own three of > them, including a spare one. It works fine on Mac and W10. > > There are numerous innovative pointing devices available nowadays, - graphics > tablets, vertical mice, pencil mouse, etc. If you have a positive experience > employing an innovative pointing device design for mapping, please, let me > know. > > [1] https://nexustek.us/mice/sm-8500 > > Best regards, > > Oleksiy > > > ___ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] What pointing device you use for mapping?
sent from a phone > Il giorno 12 lug 2016, alle ore 10:18, Oleksiy Muzalyev >ha scritto: > > I own three of them, including a spare one. so you use two mice contemporarily? Wow. Cheers, Martin ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] What pointing device you use for mapping?
I use Nexus Silent Mouse SM-8500B [1]. This mouse does not produce a "click" sound, though there is a tactile click. This type of soundless mouse makes a difference while working in an OSM editor. I like SM-8500B. I own three of them, including a spare one. It works fine on Mac and W10. There are numerous innovative pointing devices available nowadays, - graphics tablets, vertical mice, pencil mouse, etc. If you have a positive experience employing an innovative pointing device design for mapping, please, let me know. [1] https://nexustek.us/mice/sm-8500 Best regards, Oleksiy ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk