Not sure if I'm embracing my inner geek - or just selling out.
But I am starting with Trimble Geo-Spatial on Monday.
The Geo-Spatial team is responsible for Access. So I hope to be able to help make it even better.
I was given one of those offers 'too good to refuse', by which I am genuinely excited.
Yes, I will miss all my current field work and the funky places I got to go. But at least I wont be totally office bound.
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Congrats on your new job. ?ÿDoes this mean no more pics of your work boots?
Well, they are not going to need cleaned nearly so often.
The balcony and beer will remain.
Mr. Cox,
That picture must be a negative print. Cars are parked on the wrong side of the street for the direction that they are heading.
My one question is how did Trimble get the Monument sign appear to be a positive and not a negative? They are clever dudes!
JA, PLS, SoCal
He's in New Zealand.?ÿ Everything is a tad different there.?ÿ Note the arrows in the driveway.
Nice! Congrats!
Do you orient your maps with South arrows instead of North arrows to where I have to look at them upside down, sort of like driving on the wrong side of the road?
Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
Nice! Congrats!
Do you orient your maps with South arrows instead of North arrows to where I have to look at them upside down, sort of like driving on the wrong side of the road?
Well...
Gravity is three dimensional.
So "up" is still "up"
(even if it is completely reversed from at the Antipodes)
And a compass still points to magnetic North
(unless you have the wrong belt buckle on)
NZ was well served by the Imperial Surveyors late from the Great Survey of India, we have a long tradition of Northern Surveyors
But we do have completely different stars from you guys.
So which way is North?
It depends...
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Wikipedia tells me Polaris Australis?ÿ(Sigma Octantis) is your best pole star, but it is much dimmer than Polaris. Has it been commonly used for azimuth like Polaris was??ÿ
Wikipedia tells me Polaris Australis?ÿ(Sigma Octantis) is your best pole star, but it is much dimmer than Polaris. Has it been commonly used for azimuth like Polaris was??ÿ
Was commonly used - but as you say - it IS dim.
I know of at least one survey from as late as the 1970's that used it for orientation
There are a number of brighter circumpolar stars that were also used.
Of course these days everyone just uses GPS (or Glonass; Galileo; Beidou or all of the above)
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Congratulations and good luck, fella!
Congrats!