The question is kind of insulting and some of the responses, well. GPS is a tool, like any tool it is the brain of the user that controls the result. Often the people chosen to use that tool are incapable of anything else. The shortcomings from my point of view is that often the client and the one signing the field crews checks are the one's in danger of harm. The older guy that still offers a good marketable product without GPS is only a danger to the ego of the GPS user who can't do so themselves. The young are only a danger to all, if they fail to learn the basics from stem to stern because they worship technology, forgetting that the tools they use only exist as a support of the basic surveying methods. Either the young or the older who are of the opinion that they know it all are about as useful as a plugged hose, the potential is there, but.
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