I had our best tech in the office put in his two week notice. Found out a RR project was collected with multiple scale factors, TBC files with different scale factors and sometimes a combo of both. Supposed to rain tomorrow so can't field check things, gotta get it drafted before he walks.?ÿ
What I would do to just work on simple survey jobs that require a manual total station, prism pole, machete and a boxed lunch, hell I'm to the point I'd love to hand draft everything.
More days then not, I really hate all this technology - more trouble than it's worth most of the time.?ÿ
collected with multiple scale factors
There's something wrong with software design that doesn't store the raw data.?ÿ You can do all the manipulations you want later, but knowing what the instrument really measured is fundamental.
Every since man discovered fire he's either found it to be his best friend or worst enemy, depending on which way the wind was blowing.?ÿ
Maybe you could run some of raw GPS observations through TBC in a new project to re-solve vectors to some of the more critical points while it's raining and get a better feel for how the survey has been impacted by the scale factor issues. Always easier to fix something before it's gone out the door.?ÿ
Chin up fella.
Just another manic Monday.
After all, tomorrow is another day.
Hang in there baby.
Yeah...problems can be fixed but lots of steps and checks. Control was set with VRS on Grid, exported and then topo collected with a TS scale factor of 1. Then at midpoint of project control was adjusted and sent to field with different factor. Topo was collect with TS with factor of 1.000038xxxx. Now final TBC file has different scale factor. Ugh. I swear I have said this 1,245,588 times. Set control first run levels and then don't touch it.
Keep it Simple Stupid.
Ever since man discovered fire he's either found it to be his best friend or worst enemy, depending on which way the wind was blowing.
I like that. So true.
...and a boxed lunch,
We talking like cold fried chicken box lunch??ÿ ???
Yeah technology is a mean mistress when it departs being a tool and becomes a method.?ÿ I'm still building my reduction workflows, and would love to know which direction you take each deviation to come to a common set of locations.
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Look around.?ÿ Nearly every day I witness incredibly simple chores being turned into massive tasks by the use of "conveniences".?ÿ Was stuck in line behind a person at the Dollar General who was attempting to pay for about $3 worth of something with a debit card that the reader was rejecting for no explainable reason.?ÿ The clerk tried a little bit of everything before magically the reader was happy.?ÿ I would have laid down three dollars, told the clerk to toss the pennies coming back in the little handy dandy penny cup and donate my cash register receipt to the needy as I walked out the door with my rinkydink purchase. I always pay cash in Dollar General stores as I have witnessed this foolishness far too many times there.?ÿ Cash.............it's real money, folks.?ÿ Use it.?ÿ And don't get me started on the packages that must be scanned but cannot be read because of issues with vacuum packing and such that scrunches the bar code into an indecipherable mess that the poor clerk spends ten minutes trying to make it readable.
Supposed to rain tomorrow so can't field check things
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What's rain got to do with it?
Bad news: They are replacing humans with robots.
Good news: They are hiring robot repair people.
Bad news: They are replacing the robot repair humans, with robots, that can fix robots.
Good news: Robots don't get pms.
Bad news: In an attempt to make robots smarter, there is a new "PMS robot chip".
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@dmyhill project is on live rails - safety, wont let us out there in the rail slips trips falls line of sight, etc.
