Setting panels isn't the worst job.....
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Budget cuts take away the other half of your panel? Oooo, I know, you're limited on the amount of panel material used because if you make an entire X you have to post a "This panel is know to cause cancer in the State of California" sign on it, which really messes with the aerial photography.?ÿ
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Budget cuts take away the other half of your panel? Oooo, I know, you're limited on the amount of panel material used because if you make an entire X you have to post a "This panel is know to cause cancer in the State of California" sign on it, which really messes with the aerial photography.?ÿ
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SHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?ÿ Don't even joke...... they might be monitoring my brain waves..... Speaking of which, I need to go get some Aluminum foil.......
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I wear my tin foil hat daily!!!
There are definitely worse things you could be doing in CA
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Budget cuts take away the other half of your panel? Oooo, I know, you're limited on the amount of panel material used because if you make an entire X you have to post a "This panel is know to cause cancer in the State of California" sign on it, which really messes with the aerial photography.?ÿ
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I'm sure the Prop 65 warning is on the panel, probably near an edge and in an L100 font.
I was thinking that the panel location might be in or near a State or Federal park or other environmentally sensitive area and the local park authorities wouldn't allow the other half of the X because the paint might wash off the edge of the chip-seal road and contaminate the local aquifer, thus endangering some rare glass-winged newt that has never been seen within 100 miles or the local population of purple manzanita which can't be discerned from other manzanita in any practical way and tends to pops up like weeds, choke out all other low growth (like young trees) and is generally impervious to all known legal formulas of commercial weed killers.
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Looks like a lovely place to be working today.?ÿ I'm jealous as I sit here chained to my desk.
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Budget cuts take away the other half of your panel? Oooo, I know, you're limited on the amount of panel material used because if you make an entire X you have to post a "This panel is know to cause cancer in the State of California" sign on it, which really messes with the aerial photography.?ÿ
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I'm sure the Prop 65 warning is on the panel, probably near an edge and in an L100 font.
I was thinking that the panel location might be in or near a State or Federal park or other environmentally sensitive area and the local park authorities wouldn't allow the other half of the X because the paint might wash off the edge of the chip-seal road and contaminate the local aquifer, thus endangering some rare glass-winged newt that has never been seen within 100 miles or the local population of purple manzanita which can't be discerned from other manzanita in any practical way and tends to pops up like weeds, choke out all other low growth (like young trees) and is generally impervious to all known legal formulas of commercial weed killers.
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Looks like a lovely place to be working today.?ÿ I'm jealous as I sit here chained to my desk.
It depends on what time of year, literally.?ÿ It's generally okay to build buildings in the dead of winter and middle of the rainy season in the northern coastal forests but that's the only time, literally, I'm not kidding. And don't even think about asking for an extra because two miles of the state highway slid out necessitating a 4 hour detour to get from the southern half of the project to the northern half of the project.
Spray chalk should be okay.
I see some folks measure photo panels to the corner, others to the center. I was always told by photogrammetrists that it is easier for the eye to pick the center of objects and I agree, thus why solar reticles are better than sighting the edge. Now for some natural targets like intersection of sidewalks, I do use the edge, but where I have a choice, I always go for the intersection regardless of number of legs.
Thoughts from others?
SHG
I shot those too.?ÿ The reason for the 5'x1' panels was mostly ease and quickness of single person set up.?ÿ ever try to pin down 2'x12' strips of vinyl in 15kt winds??ÿ ;)?ÿ?ÿ
I shot a number of paint strips, Stop Bars, Sidewalk intersections and took photos looking north/east and surrounding.?ÿ The CP gave me the guidelines and I was able to move the points to adjust for traffic, shade issues, access etc based upon the Area Of Interest and flight plans we developed.
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And for the record, 3009 miles driven to set 11 panels, and collect gps on 32 total, was mind numbing. Ass numbing too.
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Interesting I never thought of shooting the painted center of a 1/2 target.?ÿ I always thought of them as forming a point and the point marks the point.?ÿ But I can see your point :). Jp
I see some folks measure photo panels to the corner, others to the center. I was always told by photogrammetrists that it is easier for the eye to pick the center of objects and I agree, thus why solar reticles are better than sighting the edge. Now for some natural targets like intersection of sidewalks, I do use the edge, but where I have a choice, I always go for the intersection regardless of number of legs
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