Re: [Gimp-user] Tips for digitising/tracing image with GIMP?

[Chris Mohler <cr33dog gmail com>]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net> wrote:
> > Do you think GIMP is suitable for this kind of image analyses? Or should I
> > use a vector based program like Inkscape?
>
> [...]But you might alo be able to do the tracing to paths in gimp
> and then iterate over the paths using the gimp-get-vector-points and
> friends (see help->procedure browser in gimp and search for vector)

A simple starting point:
http://registry.gimp.org/node/17235

I'd go with a vector editor rather than use paths in GIMP though.
Path tool in GIMP is nice, path tool in Inkscape is nicer ;)

Chris