This summer I went to Ilam, Nepal with CU Boulder Student Chapter of Engineers Without Borders. I traveled as their Survey Mentor. EWB’s goal is to engineer clean water sites but finally figured out they needed reliable survey data to do the design. My function was to train the traveling students and the local Nepalis in the use of a total station and methods of data collection for site topo maps. A couple of years ago, a Boulder survey firm donated a Topcon GTS 300 to the Namsaling Community Development Center in Ilam for use in these projects. Time, travel, and weather have taken a toll on the equipment. We (EWB and NCDC) are looking for donation of functioning batteries for the Topcon, another functioning total station, and or a non electronic theodolite. There is no budget for repair or calibration of donated equipment. If you have something, please drop me a line. And oh yes, it was the trip of a lifetime!
That's very cool, thanks for sharing. I am acquainted with the EWB folks in Fort Collins and some of the work they did in Peru.
I think there should be a survey group, "Land Surveyors Without Limits."
Surveyors Without Boundaries perhaps
:good:
...and thanks for sharing!
But surveyors do have boundaries and borders 🙂
"without limits" LOL
there is...
http://www.geometres-sans-frontieres.org/english/
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