I used one near exactly like that, in 1993-1994 - like Bunsen said, to trace large paper drawings into the computer. Mine were maps though, and not nice simple maps like google maps... but every little line on ones like http://www.adirondacknorthway.net/maps/lake_george_topo_map.jpg
Thankfully, I didn't do that long, and soon moved to handling the post-digitised datasets.
The tablets didn't really allow *drawing*, rather you used a puck (like this one) to click along each line, and piece by piece build up one feature. Four and five button mice be damned, the one I used had 18 buttons
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Pretty neat stuff, but not terribly useful for artists.
Dana
Thankfully, I didn't do that long, and soon moved to handling the post-digitised datasets.
The tablets didn't really allow *drawing*, rather you used a puck (like this one) to click along each line, and piece by piece build up one feature. Four and five button mice be damned, the one I used had 18 buttons
.Pretty neat stuff, but not terribly useful for artists.
Dana