I have about 12 sections of land that I need to find the corners for.?ÿ I've got good coordinates for a handful of the corners and a 1930's GLO survey with reasonably good bearings and distances.?ÿ It seems that another surveyor I know uses StarNet to compute search points but I don't/can't have access to StarNET, only Carlson SurvNET - are they comparable?
I'm just trying to get a basic understanding of the workflow.?ÿ If I understand correctly, you can punch in certain known points, designate them as "fixed", and then key in the bearings/distances of record and it will adjust it to your control as best it can, while holding the points you tell it to.?ÿ How does one go about doing this if they don't have a TS file full of raw traverse data?
You can definitely do this in StarNet.?ÿ You hold good coordinates on found monuments fixed and use the record bearings and distances as measurements.?ÿ It will calculate coordinates for the look-4 monuments and give you an idea of how good the number is in the form of error ellipses.
SurvNet is not really optimized for this sort of thing.?ÿ I think you would have to somehow create an RW5 file.
I saw in SurvNet where you can manually create an RW5 file.?ÿ Maybe you could key in the record info as if you had traversed around it on an assumed coordinate system?
I have had only a brief experience with SurvNet but I found it very comparable to StarNet.?ÿ I'm pretty sure you could do what you propose in SurvNet, and without creating a RW5 file.?ÿ
I have used StarNet in the past and use SurvNet presently.?ÿ Yes you can do this in both programs.
In StarNet you would have to create a .dat file to enter the data, in SurvNet a .rw5 file.
I use Carlson's raw data editor to enter old traverses by hand.?ÿ The Carlson User's Manual has a good explanation of the .rw5 file format, and the use of the editor.