Ways to capture GIS
Capturing GIS data consumes most available time for those that are practitioners of GIS. As such, there are a variety of methods used to enter data into a GIS where it is stored in a digital format. All existing data that has been printed on paper or PET film is able to be digitized or scanned to produce digital data. This would be a good time to define what a digitizer is and does. A manual digitizer is a modified graphics tablet that uses a special magnetic pen, stylus, or puck that delivers information into a computer to create a digital map. These are rather expensive, however, they are very useful for GIS digitization (http://www.digitizerzone.com/calcomp-db6.html):
Digitizers can produce vector data as operator ...
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