Congrats on the good results and the ribs. I'd like to have medically prescribed naps, too.
M ap. To locate and measure the locations of topographical features on a parcel for engineering, financial, or boundary requirements.
Turned out to be a property survey, instead, just the same. I could have used a nap after lunch, though.
Apparently I was projecting. Oops.
I'm a civil engineer, so I commission surveyors' work all the time. A good topo is a thing of beauty.
Do you ever get tired of people's asking you if you use a "transom?"
I just tell them that GPS is ten billion dollars of infrastructure built to ensure that poop flows downhill...
and also for when Uncle Sam needs to put a ton of HE through a specific door or window from twenty five hundred miles away, too, of course.
Seriously, though -
My company uses Trimble GPS equipment and software, and Trimble or Geodometer total stations that run on TDS for our "traditional" total station work. Our feature definition/code lists are organized so that if the field guys exercise due diligence in executing the map the line work is mostly done simply by importing the text file and having the descriptions sort into their appropriate layers.
We do live in wondrous times.
Ah, they are in truth wonderful times. We're just learning to get the full benefit out of AutoCAD Civil3D - the grading and labeling functions in the surfaces are wonderful.
The thing we need to keep ourselves safe against, though, is the young bucks who think that because they can run a program they can replace us engineers and surveyors.
It's amazing how quickly a misplaced decimal can cost you the farm, too.
Back in 2000, when the reconstruction of the I-15 corridor through Salt Lake county began, Wasatch Constructors became the first major contractor cosortium to use GPS controlled grading equipment. I had a friend who worked for them and he stated that there was not a single redhead set on the mainline roads, and only a handful at some critical interchange or bridge approaches.
The technology is becoming more common and user - friendly. Most contractors still demand a third-party survey confirmation on what their own systems have generated, though, so we haven't completely lost that part of the market. Things happen fast.
The trick becomes being right every time.
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Misplaced decimals - there's a surveyor in town who has a bit of difficulty with that. He sometimes forgets to check his vertical control.
I had a project he was staking for the contractor. He got the whole building and site 9" too low. It showed up when they were tying into some adjacent (expensive) pavement. Took a bit of head scratching to fix that one. I still get slightly disgruntled when I drive by it.
And there's another surveyor in town who thinks like I do. When he does a survey, I'll get it back with more than I asked for. He'll say, "it looked like you might need it." And he's always right.
We've increasingly had contractors ask for our ACAD drawings so they can program it into their graders. Makes me a bit nervous because people tend to believe their equipment without checking with their eyes. In the old days they'd ask if something didn't look right before they built it. Now, it seems like they build it then ask afterwards.
Progress.
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