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RasterTracer

RasterTracer is a plugin for semi-automatic digitizing of underlying raster layer in QGis.
It is useful, for example, when you need to digitize a scanned topographic map, with curved black lines representing lines of equal heights of the surface. Instead of creating this curved vector line by manually clicking at each segment of this curved line to create multi-line, with this plugin you can click at the beginning of the curved line and at the end of the curved line, and it will automatically trace over black pixels (or pixels that are almost black) from the beginning to the end. By using this plugin you reduce clicks while digitizing raster maps.

This process is show here:

Usage

Tracing is enable only if selected vector layer is in the editing mode.

For better result you can choose the color that will be traced over. To do this, check the box trace color and select desirable color in dialog window.

If trace color is unset, the pluging will try to trace the color that is similar to the color of the pixel on the map at a place where you cliked last time. It means, that each time you click on the map, it will trace slightly different color. It slows down tracing a bit, but it may be useful if the color of the line you are tracing varies.

Useful keys

b - delete last segment

a - switch between "trace" mode and "single-line" mode.