Interesting link to American Surveyor article on the surveying of Disney World.
The last disk is from where we spent the latter part of the week. I resisted the temptation to document all the mag-nails with washers, rebar with caps and rail road spikes I spotted during our short walk to the ice cream shop down the street.
Im glad to find out im not the only one that does this !
We have a Disney beach resort here in Vero Beach, and we did some work there and these things are all over the place. Dimples are a little hard to find on them sometimes.
I've stayed at that resort...really nice!!
Berntsen designed them so that the lat/lon lines on the globe intersect at the center of the disk to create the "dimple".
I have a nice collection of Survey cap/disk paper weights, including the Walt Disney Disk, I bid on and won the Disney disk, (hard to get) on a silent auction at the Idaho/Washington Survey Conference years ago. In my travels as a GNSS Manufacturer Rep around the planet, several times now, provides me with great opportunities to photograph many unique looking survey caps and disks. I also have a great collection of survey caps/disks, given to me from the many surveying organizations I've trained over the years.
-BbB B-)
Sitting on my desk, courtesy of Mr. Scott Zelenak
This drives my wife nuts. Whenever we go on vacation I am always looking at the ground. And then I say "but that helps me to know where I am". She doesn't seem to care, so I keep my mouth shut... and walk behind her.
I have one too.
About 30 years ago one of my employees took week vacation. He and several friends took a motorcycle trip through Michigan, Canada and returned through New York and Pennsylvania. Upon returning to work the employee told me he was a bit disturbed by how deeply Surveying had gotten into his mind.
While waiting in line for U.S. customs he pointed out a survey marker at the side of the road to one of his buddies. The friend responded "Man your crazy! Look where you are and searching for survey marks!" The were on the approach to the bridge from Niagara, Canada to the U.S. with a grand view of the falls. His other friends were digging out cameras to get photos.
He has been a licensed surveyor for about 20 years now. Just saw him earlier this month.
Ditto
And now that my daughter is an LS she does the same thing.
Drives my wife crazy when all of us go some place and my daughter and I have a competition finding survey marks.
and I thought it was just me ...
> This drives my wife nuts. Whenever we go on vacation I am always looking at the ground. And then I say "but that helps me to know where I am". She doesn't seem to care, so I keep my mouth shut... and walk behind her.
I have had a similar situation. Back in 2004 my wife and I got up early to hike up Diamond Head on Oahu to catch an early morning sunrise over the ocean. We hiked up the interior of this extinct volcano in the dark and hit the summit right as it was getting light. While waiting for the sun to break the horizon, the surveyor-geek in me pointed out the survey marker described in [msg=179561]this thread[/msg] to my wife.
Suffice it to say, she continues to remind me (usually when we're out with friends or family) of my little transgression of what was supposed to be our first romantic morning on our vacation to Hawaii. When I encounter survey markers during our travels now, I make sure I'm well out of arms reach... 😉
and watch out,
it must be contagieus,
my 2 kids (16 and 20) do find'em faster than I do.
sometimes we go into some competition.
Chr.
Nikko, Japan
From a few years back before a GPS camera. Google Earth tells me its near 36.75N 135.60N
Also in Japan, they do a good thing with manhole and service pit covers. This example was in Himeji.
Switzerland...
