Field trip last weekend, travelling light, got wet, no laundry service, no breakfast, no lunch, double dinner.
Leaning into the breeze, sunglasses blew off and overboard, no breakfast, no lunch, double dinner.
@richard-imrie Looks like fun...Always nice to get away every once in a while.
Tongue Point, OR on the Columbia River east of Astoria this week.?ÿ Part of an environmental cleanup of the former naval air station.?ÿ Actually got some rain.
Out of town work in the time of Covid is real fun.?ÿ I had a hard time finding a restaurant open by the time I got to my hotel at 2000hrs.?ÿ I hate the whole eating in the room thing.?ÿ Not nearly as fun as the days of finding a nice local pub for dinner and a drink.
On the crazy note, the hotel was packed with people on holiday.?ÿ
Actually my wife's mug but it applies to me too.?ÿ Definitely uplifting.
Andy
Not much fieldwork for me at the moment. I??m building a very elaborate field to finish system right now. I am enjoying getting out and about on weekends though.?ÿ
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That must be a trillion miles from my backyard.?ÿ Enjoy!
@css_au
Australia?
@css_au
Betting the water is considerably more solid appearing today and there are dang few green leaves to find anywhere.
Edit:?ÿ Just checked the weather for Hobart to get a better idea of reality.?ÿ Although overnight temps are around 3 to 6C the daytime temp is closer to 10C.?ÿ Not too bad for the equivalent of our mid-February weather.
@holy-cow yeah. These have been taken over the last few weekends. It??s cold, for Australia, but not that cold. 😀
Office again at home thus week. Finishing the drafting on the last Topo, 10 Lidar scans on control points, 3 random with collected targets, 43 cloud to cloud plus a couple thousand RTK shots (all using Microsurvey XYZ automap system). Discovered halfway through point cloud editing Cyclone failed to import the entire scan on one setup. Had to do some Swiss software wrangling standing on my right foot with my tongue in my left cheek to fix that. At least I didn't have to redo the cloud to cloud registration. Had to start over on editing.
Scan on 10 control points like what would be done with a total station then fill in with scan setups every 20 to 30 feet to fill in the details, much faster when it is turned on and set to scan, they go about 3 times faster. Collecting targets with a scanner is slow but much faster to register. Lidar data works great in places like airports with a lot of buildings and hardscape. It picks up everything, no missed shots.
Using Microsurvey Ultimate I go through and put coded points on the point cloud then run the Automap. Then if something doesn't look right it's a lot easier to edit than just a bare polyline. Move the point, the line moves with it. I can run them 2D and 3D. It's pretty slick. I use 3D as I'm going so I can see if it's right then at the end I can run it 2D because that is what the engineers want. I run it through another drawing using a break line library which puts the breadlines on the engineer's preferred layer.
Thats how I do it, a person could simply draft if they wanted to.
Next project is at Fresno Yosemite International Airport, not in a hurry to go there in the smoke and the heat. Built my new window vent for the portable air conditioner outside yesterday (hot and smokey, wore an N95), trying to beat the headache today.
It brought a smile to my face... I'm sure there is more to the story... Somewhere.
N
?ÿOne more typical title survey for a sale.
I first surveyed this 18 years ago when a friend whose family has a bar / restaurant here bought a tired house, fixed it up for a successful villa rental. Then he started building a second bigger house on the same lot and got in over his head. HOA doesn't allow subdivision and it took 10 years or more to find a buyer for both houses.?ÿ?ÿ
