Description: Steps for digitizing maps
Keywords: Engauge Digitizer, browser based documentation, online manual, Digitizing Maps

## Engauge Digitizer - Digitizing Maps

### Typical Set of Steps To Digitize An Image File

The following steps manually digitize a map with one measure:

- Obtain an image file (bitmap, jpeg or other) containing a scale bar with its scale distance marked
- Import the image file using one of the following options:
  - File/Import menu option
  - Copying and pasting
  - Dragging and dropping
- Click on the Scale Bar button before entering the scale bar. This will define the scale
- Click on one end of the scale bar, then drag to the other end of the scale bar, then enter the scale bar length
- Select the View/Measure Geometry Info menu option to bring up the measure geometry window
- Click on the Measure Points button before entering measure points. These will contain the measure angles, distances and areas
- Click on the map to add a measure point
- Repeat the previous step until the map is covered with a sufficient number of measure points
- Export measure points using one of the following options:
  - Copying and pasting to copy points in the current measure from the measure geometry window to another application
  - Dragging and dropping to copy points in the current measure from the measure geometry window to another application

### Optional Steps

For a map with more than one measure:

- Select the Settings/Measures menu option to bring up the measures window
- Click on the New button to create a new measure, then enter the name of the new measure
- Repeat the previous step until all desired measure names have been entered
- In the main window, use the Measures combobox to select a measure. While that measure is selected, all new measure points will be assigned to that measure