On 06.03.2013 16:08, Rahkonen Jukka wrote: > Hi, > > I list some quick notes about digitizing with OpenJUMP and some other > programs. > > 1) - Before Ede implemented the new keyboard shortcuts the only way to > cancel digitizing was to reselect the same digitizing tool or some other > tool from the toolbox or Select features or Fence tool from the main menu. > - With the new keyboard shortcuts we have now, selecting another tool does > not cancel drawing but the only way to cancel digitizing is to press Esc when > the same tool that was used to start drawing is active. > - Behaviour is clearly different. I do not say if it better or worse.
so far the others tend to autocancelling as before.. i have no opinion, so i will do so if nobody objects in time. there is still the option of cancel/keep to allow users to use other tools as you mention below. > 2) - It is essential to be able to pan and zoom and continue to draw a long > linestring or big polygon after that. In OpenJUMP this is possible by using > the keyboard shortcuts. Actually, it is the only way. User cannot use for > example Pan or Zoom tools from the main menu because selecting another tool > cancels drawing. > - Digitizing with Pan/Zoom keyboard shortcuts is nice and efficient but user > needs to know how to use the shortcuts. It is probably not evident for new > users. > - Panning and zooming during drawing is not possible without keyboard. > - QGis does not have at all as nice shortcuts for digitizing. It does have > configurable shortcuts but they are not as nice to use (my opinion). > - QGis does not cancel drawing if another tool is selected. Actually the > default way to digitize seems to be to draw as long it is possible, select > Pan tool, pan, select drawing tool, continue drawing, select Pan tool etc. I > wouldn' t like to work that way but it is easy for the beginners and user do > not need to touch the keyboard while drawing. > - uDig cancels drawing when another tool is selected. > - QGis and uDig are not totally comparable with OpenJUMP because they allow > only one geometry type per layer and only one layer at a time can be editable. > > 3) - I do not see a reason for keeping not ready digitized feature open if it > is not compulsory like it is with the QGis way to do use panning. Except one > use case which I will tell later. For me it is OK to cancel drawing without > asking if user selects another tool. noted. > 4) - However, if OpenJUMP should be used for digitizing with GPS a > possibility to keep feature open for digitizing would be very good thing. It > may take 5 minutes to walk to the next vertex when you are out in the field > and if you see something else that should be recorded on another layer you > would like to interrupt, save point or vertex of another feature and continue > gathering points to your first feature. However, for efficient work user > should be able to keep however many features open and user interface should > be made to support selecting which not ready feature to continue. It is not > so simple but I know one old PDA software (SOLO Field) where this was > implemented well. sounds complicated to implement. when users can keep one geometry unfinished, they will ask why not another one as well? for such use case i suggest to collect point on a layer per feature an merge them when finished or simply add point to a multipoint/linestring via add vertex > 5) - We should perhaps think a bit more about making it somehow possible to > digitize without keyboard because It may be that Windows 8 computers with > touchscreen and keyboard will come more common. There was discussion about a > related thing last year, read "SuperZoom and other zoom/pan tools" from > http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.jump.devel/month=20120201. Perhaps > improved SuperZoom tool could be a good solution. Let's hope Matthias hears > and buys a laptop with touchscreen and does some testing :) another bridge i'd like to cross when we get there.. although javabased we do not even run on Android.. ;P > > That's all for today. > tl;dr http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Too_long;_didn%27t_read just joking.. thanks for all your input!... ede ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
