Bitmapped images don't scale well. When you zoom in, the pixels get larger, rather than more pixels being added. For purposes of map-making, it seems like a vector-based system would work better.
-- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria -----Original Message----- From: John Smith <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 23:51:38 To: <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion for JOSM 2009/11/3 Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]>: > > > 2009/11/3 John Smith <[email protected]> >> >> Gimp lets you plot freehand or if you hold shift will do a straight >> line, I'm sure there is a number of modifiers that would make a free >> hand mode useful... > > Gimp is a bitmap-based-programm. As I pointed out: nearly all vector-based > programms offer freehand-modes (Adobe Illustrator, Ex-Macromedia Freehand, > Flash, ...) but they are not useful when it comes to precise drawing. It doesn't matter if it's vector or raster, we're essentially talking about plotting points and having those points joined by a line/way, the point is it's just a data entry method, and as I said even gimp can draw a precise line. If you don't want to use such a features that's your pejorative, there is plenty of features I don't use in JOSM, but other people would like the option of being able to do this. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
