When one desires to basically "air drop" control into an area via GPS, I have often thought of the best way.
The examples discussed to date are total station route traverse, closed with some variation of a GPS traverse.
But, if one needed the "air drop", IF it was expedient to do such a thing, perhaps a resection point in the midst of points observed by GPS would be a better solution. At least modern data collectors would allow one to have a statistical analysis of the relationship of the points used. (Assuming there were at least 4, it would even be 3d.)
Maybe I should put the phone down and go to sleep...
> Maybe I should put the phone down and go to sleep...
Hmmm...I think you were already asleep. Maybe now that you've had some rest you can try your question again.
I have recovered many corners that were set by triangulating the rotor hub or “Jesus nut” on a helicopter from multiple points and dropping a bean bag to set cadastral corners back in the day. When GPS became the tool of choice we would navigate to pre-comped coords and drop aluminum drive rods out with flagging attached to mark locations of cadastral corners. We would then hike to location, cut lz, drive rod and static position for a move to set corner. We made the move with a Sipe-Sumner compass.
