when I was in college topgrafia was said that was the easiest job in the race: that anyone could do this work, topographical equipment that did everything, that only those who did not complete the race civil engineer engaged in topography ... work easy?, see this, you are saying in this great work of the topography???
topografia, trabajo facil??
cuando estaba en la universidad se decia que la topgrafia era el trabajo mas facil de la carrera:que cualquier persona podia hacer esta labor, que los equipos topograficos hacian todo, que solo los que no terminaban la carrera de ingeniero civil se dedicaban a la topografia..., trabajo facil??, vean esto, ustedes que opinan de esta gran trabajo de la topografia???
I've never worked in a harness, though I can recall a few times when I probably should have.
Some topo is easy, some is hard, some is interesting, and some boring. I wouldn't want to do nothing but, though I like to keep some topo in the mix.
They forgot to tell you that the easy part is done in the office.
NOTHING in the field is consistently easy. In the office, it's a totally different story. I've been pulling contours for almost 40 years and still look forward to the big jobs. B-)
Easy? No. But I wish I was there.
Some topos are the easiest survey work I've ever done. Others are the hardest survey work I've ever done.
NO YOUR OTHER LEFT!! Couldn't help myself. Thanks for posting the pictures. It's always good to see another scene than the one I am in now. Be safe and double check that harness for frays and worn out buckles.
I have one word for you. Lidar
I can not agree more Mr. Billingsley,
I have done a 100 acre topo with a few trees in 2 hours and have spent 2 days on a 0.5 acre survey with a hundred trees and a 200 foot change in elevation with everything in between.
You never know.
> Some topos are the easiest survey work I've ever done. Others are the hardest survey work I've ever done.
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Exactly. This seems to be the "Year of the Topo" at our office having done nearly 20 this year (whew!).
One was about 30 acres for a railroad and industrial park with existing rails, points of frog, ground, old drainage structures (circa 1890) new roads, boundary, conflicts, houses over the lines, fences, big big a$$ dogs, crazy bluffs, et cetera.
Except for about 3 acres, it was WIDE open. It took me more than 7 days to complete it and WELL over 1000 shots. It also took nearly three days in the office to complete also. It would have taken much longer but we had all control already set and I came in each night for about an hour and downloaded data and connected breaklines up and generated contours each night so that I could see holes and problems that I'd missed.
We have done some that were 5 acres, wide open, that took a few hours.
Topo, especially if you mix in as-built and boundary with it, is quite possibly the most mentally grueling of all field work since you're having to keep up with three scopes for the project and constantly thinking and reviewing in 2 and 3D.
We no longer use conventional total stations for the work as I get tired of listening to instrument men bitch about being in the sun all day. We have a robot and I can keep the notes and tell the rodman what to get and how to get it. The biggest problem with that is them not remembering changes in rod heights as they absolutely cannot think in 3d and have no idea why I froth at the mouth about it or about them sticking the range pole in the dirt 0.1' on every shot. 🙂
I have a small scanner in my robot. About 15 points/second. However, that job would have warranted using that function and scanning the snot out of it. It worked VERY well for use scanning a dam breach in Van Zandt county several years ago and I was VERY surprised at how well the contours merry up to scan contours.