Manual Digitizing
Enrique Vasquez
Digitising is the transformation of information from analog format, such as a paper map, to digital format, so that it can be stored and displayed with a computer . Digitising can be manual, semi-automated (automatically recorded while manually following a line), or fully automated (line following).
Manual digitising involves an operator using a digitising table (or tablet) (known as heads-down digitising), or with the operator using a computer screen (heads-up digitising). The digitising table has a fine grid of wires embedded in it that acts as a Cartesian coordinate system. The coordinate may be in plane or geographic coordinates. The procedure involves tracing map features in the form of points, lines or polygons with a mouse (puck) which relays the coordinate of each sample point to be stored in the computer (see Figure 1). The tablet and puck acting together with the computer can locate the puck s position relative to reference information provided by the operator.
In point-mode the digitizing operator specifically selects and encodes those points deemed "critical" to represent the geomorphology of the line or significant coordinate pairs. This requires some knowledge about the line representation that will be needed.
On-screen digitising is an interactive process in which a map is created using previously digitised of scanned information. This method of geocoding is commonly called "heads-up" digitising because the attention of the user is focused up on the screen, and not on a digitising tablet. This technique may be used to trace features from a scanned map or image to create new layers or themes. On-screen digitising may also be employed in an editing session where there is enough information on the screen to accurately add new features without a reference image or map.
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If you need to digitize a large amount of information, you may want to use hardcopy digitizing as it can be more accurate but it requires a tablet to be efficient. We'll be doing "Heads-up Digitizing".
Positional errors are inevitable when data are manually digitized. Examles include undershooting, when your coordintes do not connect as they should, and overshooting, when the lines go past where they shood. Often these errors are not visible unless you zoom in quite a bit on the coordinates.
Below is an example with the "true" spatial layout of some parcels on the top and our result of digitizing on the bottom. In reality, you would probably never see the issues at this scale, we have exagerated them.
Setting a fuzzy tolerance (snapping tolerance) is used to reduce undershoots and overshoots. The snapping tolerance is the minimum tolerated distance between nodes, lines and/or vertices. When snapping is turned on, your cursor will jump to an existing point if it is within the snapping tolerance. Then, the coordinates at the same point will have exactly the same values.
The most important factor for success is to find out what the requirements are for the final data and make sure you have data that contains all the information you need at a high enough resolution. A great example is digitizing the HSU sports complex. If someone just wants the main buildings to be roughly identified, then a low resolution image with a few polygons is fine. However, if they want all the small buildings, signs, fields, fences, and bleachers to be included, then you need a high resolution image and it will take you much longer to do the digitizing. What you will need to then determine for each type of feature is do you:
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So usually the classification usually needs digitizing since the text is used in classification. Since you are basically skipping all classification and are just using this to use the pre-built form in Action Center I think its abit of an edge case.
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Whether you are considering embarking on a complete digital transformation or you simply want to streamline your workflows, here are just a few of the numerous benefits your company stands to gain from investing in digitizing and automating processes.
Each time a process is stuck waiting for action or a team member is left looking through various systems or documents for their next step, you are losing productivity and, in turn, time and money. Not only is managing PDF forms and paper documents in disparate environments costly and inefficient, but it is also tedious and prone to error.
Instead, by digitizing outdated, labor- and time-intensive processes, Pulpstream enables your organization to keep task owners on track by providing easy access to the status of processes, which decreases the effort needed to keep processes moving forward.
With manual processes, it can be hard to monitor every input and output that goes into each step. However, digitizing your processes lets you dissect and automate each task and decision for improvements that help remove pain points, eliminate process friction, and optimize workflows.
This can be especially useful when you are streamlining processes across business units, among geographically dispersed locations, or even across distributed workforces, allowing your team to keep things moving with preconfigured kickoff triggers, decision points, notifications, and centralized task details.
By employing a process digitization platform that is capable of utilizing flexible system integrations, your team can also quickly break down data silos that were hampering improvements and slowing productivity.
With digitized processes, your team can stop processing paperwork or cobbling data together from various sources, which is costly and time-consuming, and instead allow Pulpstream to automatically call and request data in real time, whenever and in whatever format you need it.
Whether they are internal best practices or regulatory standards, digitizing processes and improving the management of related documentation can help ensure compliance and safety requirements are met in a timely, accurate manner.
Not only can it help you to prevent important steps in a regulated process from being missed, but a solution like Pulpstream also automatically creates an auditable record of each step to help monitor compliance.
When your team is focused more on getting their work done and engaging with each other and less on finding documentation and researching tasks, they can spend more time focused on their mission and more strategic tasks.
By pairing digital document management with process automation, your organization can realize new efficiencies, improve employee engagement, and reduce slow, manual workarounds that might be holding your business back.
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