My chief and I are at odds on what the two primary directions are of drafting and sketching. What does the general survey world say its supposed to be? North,or east to the top of the page was how i was taught.
JUST PUT A DARN NORTH ARROW ON THE SKETCH! For sketches in the field book, it is any way you can. Most field book sketches are much more convenient to align with a feature of interest than a cardinal direction.
Believe that would fall under the 'artistic license' of the general surveyor's code of conduct. In the northern hemisphere I assume the standard would be to orient a sketch north, page orientation be damned, but ... in the southern hemisphere? Would one orient their sketch south? What say you 'down under'?
When it comes to corridor mapping/highway plans, stationing generally runs south to north and west to east.
In addition, stationing on plans generally run left to right.
Taking that into consideration, North up or West up would be the soft rule when it comes to roadway alignments. However you will see the north arrow all different directions on road plans.
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And make sure any idiot (namely, me) can read it and make sense of it.
When I began with a transit and chain, the page on the left side of binder rings was for station, angles, distance and description and the page to the right of binder rings was drawn from the point of setup, bottom of page, looking at the next hub, top of page
Since everything changed from Hub 9+45 to a point number, I've always drawn a sketch using sheet on both sides of binder rings and a north arrow, usually at top of page.
What is most important is that the sketch and numbers and descriptions be legible and not just henscratch.
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I have noticed, ever since I became a party chief, that I appreciate it when the second does it my way. If you follow in the small and inconsequential, I will trust in the big and critical.
It is just how it works. Every party chief essentially has a brand, "the way they do things". The real question is, "Why not do it the way the Chief wants it?"
It is his reputation on the line.
I only want clear and concise notes. You can point the north arrow to south, so long as you label it. Just convey the information.
Read Right
> My chief and I are at odds on what the two primary directions are of drafting and sketching. What does the general survey world say its supposed to be? North,or east to the top of the page was how i was taught.
"Read Right" is the way the local county surveyors want it. That means either north or east is "up" on a landscape oriented sheet.
When east is the "up", then the north is up when you move around to the right hand side. Sheets sets would be bound on the left which would make viewing from the left less convenient.
For corridors we generally align the corridor to run bottom to top and just draw north arrows.
Read Right
> [url= http://www.clackamas.us/surveyor/documents/tri_county_drafting_standards.pdf ]"Read Right" is the way the local county surveyors want it.
This applies to final maps. As far as field sketches go, where the binding is in the center of the book, which way was north would depend on which side of the binding I'm sketching on. The only way that isn't in play would be having south "up".
Lee
That's the way I learned it 45 plus years ago. Even when traversing we used one page per line and that page was aligned with the direction of the traverse.
Left hand page: angles (angle, double, difference, average), distances (record every pull and add afterward), miscellaneous notes.
Right hand page: sketches and descriptions.
Andy
I don't particularly care as long as you guys actually get the notes back to the office in a timely fashion.
> My chief and I are at odds on what the two primary directions are of drafting and sketching. What does the general survey world say its supposed to be? North,or east to the top of the page was how i was taught.
Nope. The flow of the job is up the page. A North arrow then shows you where everything is oriented. For showing a house on a detail, please, for the love of all that is good, draw it with North up the page to keep me from craning my neck in the office looking at the field book to determine how the house is.
Otherwise, the flow of the job is up the page, unless it's levels, then it's down the page.
Ditto on the south to north, west to east NORMALLY, and with a NORTH arrow on the sketch of course.
There always has been, and always will be, your exceptions. (WITH north arrows, and notes, of course).
