Forest Arrangement and Geodesy Bureau, Brzeg department

Bureau is engaged in preservation of forest area maps. It makes them accessible to forest administration. All plans and documentation are used to be preserved as papers. There are also paper and disk data files with coordinates of points that described borders of forest parcels. Some of them are SHP files and in this case some extra data as numbers of parcels and text descriptions are included. The bureau's activity consists in keeping all maps and files up to date, merging a few small maps to bigger ones, printing them and cutting out selected areas as separated maps. The main bureau's problem consists in time and cost of this activity. To solve the problem they have been decided to buy and to use the TESSEL paper document editing technology.

A sequence of steps have to be done to obtain a final map's shape:
  a) scanning of paper maps;
  b) calibrating maps (as a result of this procedure coordinates of map points correspond to those of real world with the required precision);
  c) merging of maps;
  d) converting paper and disk data files with coordinates of points to DXF format;
  e) setting up raster layer (a map drawing) and vector layer (DXF file) to a single document;
  f) adding texts, symbols, coloring selected areas etc. ;
  g) color printing the whole document (usually in A0 format) or cutting out a required part of it ;
The all steps but scanning and SHP -> DXF converting are realized by SuperEdit.

Sometimes the sequence of steps can be slightly changed or some extra steps can be added e.g. tracing some parts of raster drawing.

The described technology has been initially realized by RasterEdit (since beginning 1997), then SuperEdit version 1.3 (since December 1998). Since December 1999 version 2.1 has been installed. It is much better then the previous one. Here is the customer list of most crutial improvements introduced in the new version:
   support for editing point entities;
   support for editing large raster image files (larger than 32K pixels);
   improvements of user interface in calibration command;
   vector snap.
A support for SHP -> DXF conversion is still required.