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point numbering schemes
I find myself translating and rotating control and boundary points into other files a lot. Sucks, but it happens when you always start a project on 1000, 1000 coordinate system for all the decades past.
Generally this company has always started control at point number 1 for a project and found monuments at 50. Calculated points can be anywhere between 100 & 999, then topo or mapping starts at 1000.
At times, boundary and control get translated rotated and I always have to renumber points. Usually just adding 100 to them.
But then years down the road I do it again, and again, and then eventually two things happen:
1. I lose track of where a point came from (What job # and the date we tied it).
2. I end up running out of 101, 201, 301, 401… ranges.
I’ve considered adding in a date and field crew number to every point but that gets messy in my mind. So I think using the job no. will work. Like in Job number 1584 point 1 when it gets translated rotated make it 1_1584 or something like that.
Is anyone using a point numbering system like this? What better ways are there to fix this little problem?
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