and getting topo shots, it helps to pick the right Geoid model in the data collector!!!
:-/ :-S :-$
I suggest leaving the data collector on your desk. 😉 It worked great for me yesterday.
I took a phone call while loading the truck, got sidetracked and didn't do my usual inventory before hitting the road. Arrived at the job site an hour away from the office with no DC. Two hours later I was back on site ready to get started. Fortunately robots don't complain if you work late and they see as well in the dark as they do in the daylight.
This is why Trimble (at least used to) store the vector information in the DC file.
Simple fix, reprocess using the correct Geoid model in the Office software.
yeah Dave, I caught when I checked onto a benchmark. If I had checked onto the BM first, I would have caught it first...but no...I had to do the topo first.
Very scary though, low pdop, 11 birds, quick fixed solution. ...nothing on the TDS data collector said 'hey you idiot, you picked the wrong Geiod!!'
I'm not familiar with TDS RTK function. Does it store vectors or just position?
The best RTK data collector ever built, the TSC1, stores vectors which can be really handy. You can dump calibrations later too. Sometimes I calibrate just as a tool to find more monuments, I don't actually want to keep the calibration.
> I'm not familiar with TDS RTK function. Does it store vectors or just position?
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> The best RTK data collector ever built, the TSC1, stores vectors which can be really handy. You can dump calibrations later too. Sometimes I calibrate just as a tool to find more monuments, I don't actually want to keep the calibration.
I'm not familiar with TDS RTK either but I would have to agree on the function of the Trimble DC's. We have several TSC2's and a TSC3. They still have the option to store vectors. I would think it would almost be worthless not to store vectors. That would be like allowing the field crew just to dump a coordinate file instead of a raw file. Uh..no.
who needs a stinking data collector? i process RTK data in my head on the fly and then just remember all of the coordinate data. when i get back to the office it saves me the step of having to download, i just punch all of the data straight into cad.
topcon stores vectors too (topsurv or whatever it's called)