So I have to create a cut fill map for a construction company...I spend a bunch of time making a nice color relief cut/fill map through Carlson. Map comes out looking great and gives a ton of info. Send if off the the contractor and got a call back saying that it won't do...why?
Site guy is colorblind and can't read it :-X
> So I have to create a cut fill map for a construction company...I spend a bunch of time making a nice color relief cut/fill map through Carlson. Map comes out looking great and gives a ton of info. Send if off the the contractor and got a call back saying that it won't do...why?
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> Site guy is colorblind and can't read it :-X
Had a friend in College who was colorblind, we would always let him pick out the flagging color. I learned from him that most people who suffer from colorblindness have trouble with certain colors. Total color blindness (black and white only) is much rarer.
Ask the site guy what colors work for him.
Yeah he had trouble with the blue...we all got a good laugh out of it including him.
When using color, I always print it out in black and white and proof it to see if everything is legible without color. Assigning different line types and line weights to the different colors helps.
> So I have to create a cut fill map for a construction company...I spend a bunch of time making a nice color relief cut/fill map through Carlson. Map comes out looking great and gives a ton of info. Send if off the the contractor and got a call back saying that it won't do...why?
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> Site guy is colorblind and can't read it :-X
I was flagging a line for The Nature Conservancy. We had done the boundary but TNC wanted one of their volunteers to go with us and freshen up the flagging every few years. I kept wondering why he was having problems seeing the bright pink flagging tied to the corner trees. Yep, color blind. To him the pink flagging in the sea of leaves was all one color. Made for some interesting days.
Larry P
I made one once and put it on clear plastic. Made the permitting more visible, but not any easier.
I knew a guy who couldn't see orange flagging. But he could spot camo flagging a mile away.
Show it to us.
We will appreciate it.
Worked with a color blind guy once. He could find a nail in the asphalt far better than any one else, as long as it didn't have any paint around it. Then he would never find it.
I am color blind in the red,orange range. Not that I can't see them just that they all look very similar. We adjust. There are a bunch of online test. I can't see any of the numbers. :-/
We did a small detail survey job for a local civil engineering company. We provided a pdf plan of the survey (which had all of our colours and linetypes) and a dwg of the electronic info.
I then was then contacted by the engineer who was very annoyed that they couldn't get the dwg to look like our pdf. As we only had about four different linetypes and five different colours on the plan, I was surprised.
After much discussion about how we should set our files up so that their system automatically recognised everything and make it look like ours, it came out that their main cad operator was colour blind. According to the engineer, this should have no bearing on the fact that they could not get their info to look like ours!!!
What I love are the deeds with "attached map showing Bob's parcel in blue and Jim's parcel in green." Perfectly clear at the time, but recorded in black and white.
When I was growning up I had a friend who was red/green colorblind. For some reason he always wanted to play "Uno". He wasn't very good.
One of my brothers was highly recruited by the Army. He could spot guys standing in the woods with camo, like they where wearing glo-orange. The other brother cannot tell a Green traffic light from a Red one, except for which is on top. Was really messed up the first time he drove to a place that had the sideways. Me, no colored blindness at all?
One company used near every color of flagging on the rainbow chart. The different colors were used for a construction company client that the color of flag was an identifier to what the stake was for.
Land surveys were always a combination of red and white. If you can't see one color you can see the other.
Everyone except the color blind rodman who was always using green flagging so he could return to what we found when we began to measure.
I thought everyone could see white. He proved me wrong many a time.
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