Thoughts - Digitizing is Child's Play
My grandson likes to look over my shoulder as I work on mapping projects. Most often, he is busy playing with Legos and wants me to stop digitizing so we can construct a fort or a boat. Most often, I stop and play. I realize that time flys by and before I know it that 7-year old boy that worships the ground I walk on will be very busy into his life. I will be loved by him, but his life will consume him, as it should.
So, last night, as I was digitizing a shoreline he asked, "Grandpa? Can I try that?". My initial reaction was to think, "No, this is too difficult." But the words that came out were, "Sure. Come here and I'll show you how.". The shoreline was complex with lots of twists and turns. He carefully clicked along the shoreline with the cursor flashing along it's edge creating vector after vector. I said, "Left click to make a point, which is called a vector." He clicked his way through 10-kilometers of shoreline. After he had finished the stretch of shoreline, he studied it carefully and noted that a couple of the vertices were misplotted. We moved them to their proper position. He said, "There! How does that look Grandpa?". I answered, "That looks great!" He turned away and began playing with his Legos satisfied that this digitizing business that keeps Grandpa so busy was Child's Play.
Aren't kids fun?
