Pretty funny post on Reddit's /r/GIS about a green GIS tech that learns this the hard way.
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That is typical rural electric staking?ÿ unless the land owner demands a survey.
I went to work for a major construction company straight out of College. The PE didn't check my layout work because he didn't know how. Plans were updated every day. We had a wise old Superintendent who told me. It ain't a mistake unless it's encased in four feet of concrete. I layed everything out with a Hilger Watts Theodolite, a 100 ft. Steel tape, and a Laborer. Skilled Craftsmen made everything fit perfectly. They let me know every time something didn't fit perfect and never said a word when it did.
I'm trying to figure out what his mistake was, was he supposed to take the latest plans available to him and find the client for another signoff?. It said he did it right per plans that were changed by someone's verbal (?) agreement.
I'm trying to figure out what his mistake was, was he supposed to take the latest plans available to him and find the client for another signoff?. It said he did it right per plans that were changed by someone's verbal (?) agreement.
Me too. Seems to me he did everything correctly, the screw up occured because a communication breakdown.
"However, a foreman or someone from the customer's construction crew had spoken with a colleague of mine to shift the location, but did not submit a formal update to the design."
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We were taught in a cartography class that "GIS" does in fact stand for "Get It Surveyed"?ÿ 🙂 .?ÿ I used that acronym for every single person that came to the county where I worked and asked if the property lines on the website were close to the actual survey data.?ÿ My coworker didn't like that, and accused me of giving out legal advice when I did.?ÿ I explained to her that telling someone they needed to get it surveyed is in fact not giving legal advice, but helping them learn about the process of how you do things in the real world.?ÿ She is still there, I left to avoid more career limiting exposure to their levels of non-reality.
Sigh.?ÿ?ÿ
That doggone reality can be a real party killer.
I went to work for a major construction company straight out of College. The PE didn't check my layout work because he didn't know how. Plans were updated every day. We had a wise old Superintendent who told me. It ain't a mistake unless it's encased in four feet of concrete. I layed everything out with a Hilger Watts Theodolite, a 100 ft. Steel tape, and a Laborer. Skilled Craftsmen made everything fit perfectly. They let me know every time something didn't fit perfect and never said a word when it did.
Sigh.?ÿ?ÿ
When I worked for a construction company doing their structure layouts, bridges, boxes, etc.?ÿin the mid 1960's, I would get assigned a laborer that wasn't too extra busy.?ÿ?ÿSome of these guys didn't look very sharp, but all I had to do was to let them know what we were going to do, show them one time how to hold a chain (tape)?ÿ& plumb bob?ÿto make the measurements, hold a level rod to get elevations and run grades or anything else to do the layout. They would even understand it once I told them we were going to slope chain in a control point at the bottom of?ÿ a berm. They would tell me that they had never seen or worked with anyone that would slope chain in a point and how quick that it was?ÿin lieu of plumb bobbing?ÿand breaking chain.
That or GIS = Guessing Is Sufficient
