Map Digitization

This is a process of converting the geographic features on an analog map into digital format using a digitizing tablet, or digitizer, which is connected to a computer. Features on a paper map are traced with a digitizer puck, a device similar to a mouse, and the x,y coordinates of these features are automatically recorded and stored as spatial data.

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Since the establishment of the company map digitization has been our major expertise.The process uses geo-referenced scanned analog map or digital orthophoto as a background, from which a vector map is prepared by directly tracing map features on it. All of our outputs support a range of industry standards ready for client workstation loading. We use various GIS softwares for this purpose which include Nigmas, AutoCad, ArcGIS, MicroStation etc…