Description: Tutorial explains manually digitizing maps
Keywords: Engauge Digitizer, browser based documentation, online manual, Digitize Map Tutorial

## Engauge Digitizer - Manual Map Tutorial

### Manually Digitizing A Map Image

The following steps manually digitize a map with a scale bar.

- Import the map.png case from the Samples directory, using File/Import as shown. Not shown are the other methods of importing: using the "-import" command line option, by copying and pasting, and by dragging and dropping

- Click on the Scale Bar button to enter the scale bar. This will define the coordinate system

- Click on one end of the scale bar in the image.

- Drag to the other end of the scale bar in the image.

- Enter the length of the scale bar in graph coordinates

- Click on the Curve Points button before entering curve points. These will contain the digitized graph data

- Click on the curve to add a curve point. Repeat until all of the points in the original image are digitized.