Easy Trace Group

Easy Trace Group develops EasyTrace, a toolkit for converting scanned maps and images into vector data for cartography and GIS. The software covers the whole job, from cleaning up a raster scan to producing a checked vector map, and the company uses it on its own digitisation projects.

What Easy Trace Group offers

• Raster preparation — sharpening, contrast filters, repair of small defects and separation of coloured thematic layers, even on faded or hatched originals.
• Automatic tracing — line tracing, outlining of areas, and recognition of grids, marshes, circles and symbols, followed by line filtering and gap joining.
• Editing tools — semi-automatic tracing, single and group object editors, line alignment and vector erasing.
• Attributes and topology — assigning and copying attributes, rule-based conversion, thematic display, and topology checks with line optimisation.
• Relief utilities — automatic and semi-automatic contour height assignment with validation.
• Time tracking — a built-in log of digitising time to measure output, estimate costs and forecast deadlines.

Who it works with

Mapping and GIS teams that digitise paper or scanned maps, including projects that bring in temporary operator groups, since the work is split into steps that need different skill levels.

Key facts

• Based in: Russian Federation
• Product: EasyTrace, including an EasyTrace PRO edition
• Learning: worked examples supplied as videos with annotated projects