Ask away.
I learned a lot more about flying by teaching it, than I ever learned from my instructors.
"By your pupils you will be taught."
> Absolutely! Please ask away. Also, did you need to brush up on spherical trigonometry to get your solar system to work? 😉
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> Andy
Aloha, Andy: I have no idea what spherical trig. is!!! (You are pulling my leg right...). However, from what I've read it has to do with earth's curvature right?
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> Aloha, Andy: I have no idea what spherical trig. is!!! (You are pulling my leg right...). However, from what I've read it has to do with earth's curvature right?
Yes, I just had a little giggle thinking of a monk creating a solar system. Please don't take anything I say too seriously!!
Aloha, Nate:
Thank you so much for the suggestions.
I have architecture software called Vectorworks which I use to do a lot of architecture design (in house) for building permits etc. It allows me to do some of coordinate geometry. It is not very sophisticated as far as survey feature is concern. With some help from the software forum members I just recently learned how to create stake points with northing, easting and elevation. Then export the data as csv file to be imported into data collector. It was very exciting moment to be able create something in the computer then upload to data collector then physically place it on the ground.
I have our parcels' deeds was able to input them in Vectorworks and create boundary lines with distance and azimuth. I will post more on what I've done for comments in few days. I have one parcel that won't close perfectly. I will get the deeds for the adjoining deeds and input them in the software as well.
Thank you for the encouragement! At times things are so difficult to grasp. Seeing so many replies in this forum I see the light at the end of the tunnel and it is not an oncoming train:-D
PS. I looked up Carlson survey ACAD embedded module and it is close $3000. Looks like I have to wait on that one...
PSS. What is rotating the bearings?
Aloha, Dave:
I found POB online just recently. I am not aware of anything else.
I did purchase three books over the past several months
1. Elementary Surveying --An Introduction to Geomatics by Charles D. Ghilani and Paul R. Wolf
2. Surveying Principles and Applications by Barry Kavanagh and Tom Martin
3. Construction Surveying and Layout by Wesley G. Crawford.
Thank you so much!
Thanks Dave!
What kind of Monk are you?
I spent a few hours at a Buddhist Monastery with a view of Mount Adams in Washington State. They even made the paint on the walls (non toxic).
> I was going to say it sounds like a very comfortable type of surveying, but then again 372 acres on your island can mean some very dense jungle and very steep hillsides. I visited when I was younger and I remember how wet and dense the vegetation was.
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> I didn't notice it while I was there, but when I returned home. I realized that time passed very slowly in Kauai. Everyone had a much more laid back attitude.
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> Not many people keep such detailed records of their estate.
You are right, heavy vegetation is an issue plus tons of mosquitos! The monastery is at foot of an extinct volcano and a river so we do have gullies to work with. Might be good future topo shot exercise.
Kauai is very laid back. Nobody is in a rush—simply honking your vehicle horn on the roads because someone is slow etc. is considered inappropriate 🙂 unless to prevent accidents etc. of course.
I was in the same boat like many. Keeping records and monuments on the land is not something you think about. When we see a nice boulder we moved it for landscaping and now I realize there suppose to be an "X" on the boulder! Now I know the value!! Had a PLS re-stake many of the missing boundary line but he just simply staked it per metes and bounds "where they should be located and not where the boundaries were actually located." One pipe ended up in three into one of our offices! That is what actually triggered me to learn more.
Now days before one of us going to have fun with one of our equipment, I'd make they are not digging out one of those "rusty pipe."
We love this island, you should visit it again sometime!
> What kind of Monk are you?
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> I spent a few hours at a Buddhist Monastery with a view of Mount Adams in Washington State. They even made the paint on the walls (non toxic).
We are Hindu monks. Here is the url www.gurudeva.org
What kind of Monk are you?
He is the monk that pulls your leg!
Also:
When the student is ready, the master appears.
🙂
Don
Rotate Your Bearings means to pivot a piece of a jig saw puzzle, so it fits into the slot it is supposed to go into. But in surveying, the numbers of the bearings change, but all of that one piece change at the same time.
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> Rotate Your Bearings means to pivot a piece of a jig saw puzzle, so it fits into the slot it is supposed to go into. But in surveying, the numbers of the bearings change, but all of that one piece change at the same time.
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> N
Okay, I got it. So all your northing and easting will also change with it beside the bearings. Thanks
for Don...
here is a picture of my feet standing on the bridge over the Tiger Creek Conduit (hydro power)...
Found this shy little metering weir hiding up Tiger Creek above the Tiger Creek Regulator Reservoir...
Cool, thanks for that.
In a former job the Architects used Vectorworks, at least that sounds familiar. They ran it on Macintosh computers.
For Cogo (Coordinate Geometry), I like Microsurvey.
Somthing like this.
Simple example, one on left rotated 5° counter-clockwise, one on right rotated 5° clockwise.
> In a former job the Architects used Vectorworks, at least that sounds familiar. They ran it on Macintosh computers.
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> For Cogo (Coordinate Geometry), I like Microsurvey.
Aloha, Dave: I use Mac. Vectorworks use to be only for Mac. Now they have PC as well. However, to transfer data to DC I have to use PC interface. I have virtual PC on my Mac to do that. So far it working out pretty good.
Somthing like this.
Aloha, Doug: That is very clear! Thanks!!
A lot of the devices are accepting USB flash drives now (sometimes called thumb drives, I have also heard them called gig sticks). That has simplified a lot of the transfer tasks. I was using a TDS Ranger (first generation ranger) that would only talk to Active Sync on XP so when I got a Windows 7 computer I had to install the XP virtual machine so I could download the Ranger. Now I have an S6 with Trimble Access on a TCU which accepts a USB flash drive, no need to transfer over a cable. I also have a TSC2 (a newer Ranger with a USB port) but don't use it very much.
In rough forest terrain (my job involves a lot of rough country traversing) it is nice to have the instrument with the TCU clipped to it (like a face plate), lighter and easier to carry.
Maybe in Hawaii a machete is required but I find a set of compound loppers is just as fast and doesn't tear my shoulder and elbow up. A folding limb saw is easy to carry too and good for up to 6" vegetation in the way.
Sometimes we put the high tech stuff away and use a staff compass. GPS doesn't work too well under 200' tall trees and I can run line twice as fast with a compass but it takes some care and knowledge of what you are doing. Today we needed some rough mapping of a creek just to see roughly how close it is to a proposed property line. We did that with a Staff Compass and a Leica Disto. If it is closer than 50' or so then we will have to traverse it but I'm pretty sure it is OK.
> A lot of the devices are accepting USB flash drives now (sometimes called thumb drives, I have also heard them called gig sticks). That has simplified a lot of the transfer tasks. I was using a TDS Ranger (first generation ranger) that would only talk to Active Sync on XP so when I got a Windows 7 computer I had to install the XP virtual machine so I could download the Ranger. Now I have an S6 with Trimble Access on a TCU which accepts a USB flash drive, no need to transfer over a cable. I also have a TSC2 (a newer Ranger with a USB port) but don't use it very much.
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> In rough forest terrain (my job involves a lot of rough country traversing) it is nice to have the instrument with the TCU clipped to it (like a face plate), lighter and easier to carry.
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> Maybe in Hawaii a machete is required but I find a set of compound loppers is just as fast and doesn't tear my shoulder and elbow up. A folding limb saw is easy to carry too and good for up to 6" vegetation in the way.
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> Sometimes we put the high tech stuff away and use a staff compass. GPS doesn't work too well under 200' tall trees and I can run line twice as fast with a compass but it takes some care and knowledge of what you are doing. Today we needed some rough mapping of a creek just to see roughly how close it is to a proposed property line. We did that with a Staff Compass and a Leica Disto. If it is closer than 50' or so then we will have to traverse it but I'm pretty sure it is OK.
Aloha, Dave: thank you for sharing these details. I use machete, pruning saw, and loppers. Sometimes chainsaw too! Since it is our property we don't have worry about land owner getting upset.
I like the idea of using distant meter for simple stuff never thought of it
I have zero knowledge about GPS. With heavy tree canopies around our property and GPS prices I decided not to pursue that area. However, later on I do want learn some of the GPS basics at least to understand what are others discussing.
Thanks again. I am overwhelmed by all the support and encouragement!
