GIS for Beginners: Use a Scanner to convert a paper map into a GIS map: georeferencing & digitizing

In this video I talk about how you get vector points, lines, and area (polygon) features from a paper map into a GIS using a Scanner.

I georeference the map and then use as a backdrop for digitizing

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Thank you for posting the video. I am a City/County Planner and will be turning our paper zoning maps into digital form. This definitely helped clarify the level of accuracy I would expect with certain processes such as converting the roads/rivers to vector data. Looks like I will be doing a lot of creating new layers and tracing. And our license is not great so it will likely all be in QGIS!