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nate-the-surveyor
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I predict:

That every surveyor will have a drone, or access to very high resolution local photography, that can be used extensively. It will allow wetland determination from the air, due to colors and light spectrum.

That within 100 yrs the standard surveyor's robot, will walk on it's own, set up more stable than our modern tripods. And, it will be able to set survey markers. It will have a GPS in it, and it will scan the area with it's own internal metal detector. It will also use GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar) to scan for old markers, that are non metallic. Like Rock piles and old broken off fence post holes. It will work day, and night. It will take pictures, when it sets monuments. Or finds them. It will notify you of existing monuments, when it goes to set them.

Within 100 yrs, our standard field crew will consist of robots, on a regular basis. Not occasionally, but it will be standard.

It will contain a jackhammer, to set nearly impossible mons. It will have solar panels, to assist in keeping it charged.

It will also be able to interface with the truck, so the truck will also be driven by robotics, and computer.

And, humans will become less, and less needed. The PLS will stay in his office, except very occasionally, to personally inspect, or get his robot more survey monuments. Or to perform maintenance. Grease it. Get it a new drill bit, to drill for monuments.

I will be gone to the happy hunting grounds (Or surveying grounds) in the sky. Others will see this. I will be gone. But the next few generations of surveyors will see much change.

My neighbors brought us 25 trout, (a gang went fishing, and got cold, and they did not feel like cleaning them) I smoked them all night. I get a trout a day for a few days. Good for me. (Yay.... clap clap clap!!)

The more things change, the more they remain the same.

Fish more. Sing more. Big Help got saved at church on Sunday. Came home, and shared it with his sisters, and now my oldest 4 are born again.

I have blown off work today, and we are going to try to replenish the trout supply. It's hard to eat too much trout.

Nate

 
Posted : December 30, 2013 9:17 am
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Good idea Nate.

When will "the leaf up there in the way remover" be a standard issue ?

Or the "Super high fence see over machine" (for Kent and I) be patented for surveyor's use only ?

Bonne année 2014 mes amis !

Alexandra and Derek

 
Posted : December 30, 2013 10:37 am
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Why will your robots need to set fancy monuments? Won't the boundaries be in an accurate GIS and can't we go out with the spherical coordinates and go right to the corner?

 
Posted : December 30, 2013 11:14 am
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.....in a very short time we will all be comparing the current scanners, with their 1 million points per second capture rate, to the buggy whip and the dodo bird.

A few years back I heard a statement on how fast technology will change in the next 25 years. I believe the statement came collectively from scholars at MIT or the like. Basically, they said the amount of technological advancement in the next 25 years will surpass the advancement that took place from Newton's time to present day.

Imagine the possibilities...
http://photorumors.com/2012/06/21/this-50gp-camera-will-put-an-end-to-the-megapixel-war/

 
Posted : December 30, 2013 11:21 am
paden-cash
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oh my..predictions..

well, here goes:

In the coming year Bill Gates will come out with a new version of Windows that will render all of your good software (and most printers) unusable.

The AutoCad folks will continue to refine their products to the point that only someone with a PhD in Nuclear Hydrology will feel that the software is "adequate". Then two weeks after that release, Bentley will release their latest version...so MicroStation will open AutoCad's dwgs, but AutoCad won't open Bentley's latest..

Surveyors will still argue ad infinitum about the actual location of wooden post that was set 150 years ago...by men that set fifty or sixty that day..and didn't stand there anymore than a minute or two. And the post has been gone for 149 years.

And the New Year will probably bring down the pike a crop of more Professional Surveyors...who will feel their God-given duty is to set a new pin 0.15' from the one that has been there for forty years..

sooo...."Feliz Nuevo Ano mis amigos!"

ps - I also predict that in 2014 that a 12 year old bottle of Scotch Whiskey was bottled in 2002.:-P

 
Posted : December 30, 2013 1:46 pm

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> ps - I also predict that in 2014 that a 12 year old bottle of Scotch Whiskey was bottled in 2002.:-P

Know what the best thing about 12 year old bottles of scotch is????

There is twelve of them :party:

 
Posted : December 30, 2013 2:01 pm
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TDD will still be banned.....

we are in for 11 months of political BS Ad nausium.

I'll either gain a few #s or lose a few....

 
Posted : December 30, 2013 5:29 pm
 jud
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Just as 2013 has almost passed, so too will 2014.
jud

 
Posted : December 30, 2013 5:31 pm
RADAR
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Next year; this will be last year.....

We will have to pay taxes.....

And, we will all die, eventually..................

 
Posted : December 30, 2013 5:48 pm
Bob Port
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Come on!!

Ted still banned!
Really?

Ted brought spice to this rather dull pot of goulash

Grant TED immunity!

Mercy - Mercy
Grant TDD Mercy

Otherwise, this message board will wither and die

 
Posted : December 30, 2013 8:38 pm

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Sounds like what I do, only cheaper!

 
Posted : December 31, 2013 9:50 am
nate-the-surveyor
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😛

 
Posted : December 31, 2013 11:42 am
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Bless you Nate, and have a very Happy New Year!

 
Posted : December 31, 2013 12:54 pm