That was what I said to the smiling idiot.
But it wasn't my first thought.
Didn't even make the first five thoughts.
But what else can you say to a guy who gets it right (I hope) on the third try...
How many origins do you think this guy will need?
And what the heck does "ORINGIAL" mean anyway?
Oringial Origin Point?
I've said it before...
... and I'll say it again.
THE WORLD IS FULL OF IDIOTS!
What is all that Scott, if you don't mind explaining. Why all of the super-precise numbers? Is this some kind of super-accurate item that has to be machined?
Just curious what you're showing us. What is the "dimensional origin"?
Tom
It's pretty awesome when you meet someone who can measure seconds to 3 decimal places and feet to 4 decimal places. Now, if he could just learn to make a degree symbol, he might surpass TDD as the greatest surveyor of all time.
But he only measures right angles to the nearest 1/10° ;-).
I can do better than 6 minutes with my 1 minute transit.
What are you using to measure to four decimal places????
A machinist gone bad and turned surveyor! Did you check his pockets to see if he was carrying around a dimpler or micrometer?:-P
Pablo B-)
I once knew an old surveyor that when he was showed how to force close his survey, he started showing on his record map "no error" for his closure since he had forced closed it.
I cant even understand what is going on there lol
ekillo
I worked for a surveyor who went out, set his instrument up in the middle of a parcel, side-shot in all the pins with one angle and distance to each, then assigned coordinates to the pins, inversed between each coordinate pair and ran all his inversed bearings and distances through a traverse program. He got 1/1,000,000 closure. Imagine that.
Press [ALT-HOLD] KEY 248 - release. ° . ?
I worked for a fellow 30+ years ago. That certified his surveys with "....completed to the best of my ability and has been checked by a computer."
Other than that, how big was your punch mark? and how well can you establish the center of your punch mark?
ekillo
That's the way "some people" used to do Oyster Lease surveys in South Louisiana marshes in the 1960s. I actually had one of the "surveyors" tell me they only did First-Order surveys because of their 'perfect' closures.
he's building watch?
He's showing bearings, angles and distances to 4 decimal places and 3 out of 4 bearings are Northwest and the left over one is Northeast? If I traverse NW, NW, NW, NE, I do not get a closed figure? (Well he did sneak in one SE call, but which line is the boundary line?):-P
Looks like he is trying to figure out the precision settings for the labels. Some bearings are to the 1/1000th second and others are 1/1000th minute.
EDIT: I guess that isn't true I just misread one. But he is playing with the labels trying to figure it out.
Wow!
We had something like this when we started to move to Metric maps.
No sense of significant digits.
The worst? One LS was converting depth to found monuments to millimeter+ accuracy.
i.e. "Fd dn 1 ft" became "Fd dn 0.3048 m"
Same thing on tree and pipe diameters.
An adult, middle aged LS...