TSC1 was the best RTK controller ever made. You can actually read it outside; wow like this thing might actually get used in bright sunlight. I can understand why the hardware manufacturers never figured that out.
> TSC1 was the best RTK controller ever made. You can actually read it outside; wow like this thing might actually get used in bright sunlight. I can understand why the hardware manufacturers never figured that out.
Yes, who would have ever dreamed that surveyors might want a display that can be read in bright sun? I mean it would take some sort of psychic to figure that one out, wouldn't it?
> Lay you data collector in front of a judge if you are called upon to prove your work in a cadastral survey and see how far you get.
That would be absurd. Just as absurd as doing a lot of work that a computer can do better. A printout of the collected data, together with an least squares adjustment report, etc., would be quite another thing.
> I have never had an Attorney or Judge care about the technical data in my field book.
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> They are mostly concerned with any notes I have about who I talked to about what and possibly when I did certain things.
Notes are still important. They should take a different form than they did in the past. My notes these days consist mostly of sketches and narrative descriptions of what was found and set.
> In court, you have to testify that your decision was made on 'best available evidence'. Your 'Field book entries' prove that your were there at least.
Handwritten field books can easily be cooked in the office. Perhaps more easily than data files can be. Having a book, by itself, proves nothing.
I take plenty of handwritten notes but I don't bother to write down technical data that the DC can do faster with fewer mistakes.
I agree.
I can't imagine a Judge or Attorney wanting to see a field book full of booked angles and distances. They will want to see detailed notes on monuments, conversations with people and sketches.
Shoot the last time I was in a courtroom the Judge had a computer with his e-mail up for crying out loud. They know we live in a computer age and don't expect you to operate as if it is 1950.
