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engineer walks into the survey div ofc
well, this is not a joke, but it should be
same civil engineer that thinks he knows how we do what we do. two years ago he asked about the MDSHA datum. what is it? we tell him we think it would be Maryland State Highway that published it. however, it is not a datum. he tells us we obviously don’t know what we’re talking about, so he walks away to ask someone else.
should have fabricated something and sent him on his way. maybe something along the line of “mercator demarcation special high accuracy”. that would get him satisfied. any other suggestions? maybe “ModifieD Shape Hopfield Arcmap”
today he described for us how we do our radial topography. interesting new concept. set up on one end of the baseline, backsight the other, and collect measurements by station and offset. truly an innovation for a robotic total station. not sure my leica will be able to stand up to such an innovation of technology.
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