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chris-mills
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Joined: March 6, 2012 11:30 am
Topics: 9 / Replies: 706
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RE: What percentage of your time is divided among the various survey tasks? How many do you need in a crew>?

I suspect it's more a case of draughtsmen who have never been outside an office and think the whole world just exists on a screen. Digression - many ...

4 years ago
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RE: What percentage of your time is divided among the various survey tasks? How many do you need in a crew>?

Guess I'd better change the fraction to: 2/3 - changing it all when the client realises that what he really wanted wasn't what he showed on his desig...

4 years ago
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RE: What percentage of your time is divided among the various survey tasks? How many do you need in a crew>?

Don't you mean 1/3 office production 1/3 office admin 1/3 field production 1/3 changing it all when the client remembers what he really wanted Wh...

4 years ago
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RE: Wingtra Opinions

35mph. That's probably the weak point on the Wingtra. It's OK for the photography, but it does limit you when the wind starts to pick up and you need ...

4 years ago
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RE: Questions I get asked as a land surveyor

@steve-brosemer?ÿ On one I had recently for a seller (NOTE - in UK boundaries aren't by coordinates but by general acceptance of what is on the groun...

4 years ago
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RE: Accuracy of Drone Surveying

@rover83?ÿ When you are walking between the GCP's in order to fix them it takes hardly any extra time to pick up additional obvious points as checks ...

4 years ago
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RE: Chinese Prism Carrier

@bc-surveyor?ÿ I'd agree that the silicone solution is the one to use - and perhaps some grease on that spring before you put it together again. Chea...

4 years ago
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RE: Using a drone to produce Orthophotography for a municipality?

It's not just the number of images and the time: it's having the hardware which can cope with them all and the software which can d the necessary. No ...

4 years ago
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RE: A question for the old school

Ermm! That's what might be called trying to split hairs (sorry!)

4 years ago
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RE: A question for the old school

Advancement for some things! The split bubble instrument comes into its own when you are trying to measure deflections whilst set on a heaving object ...

4 years ago
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RE: A question for the old school

@bruce-small?ÿ Depends what you want to do! I still have two T2s, one inverted and one right way up. The older inverted one doesn''t have an auto-co...

4 years ago
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RE: Best Procedure for Surveying UAS Targets for High Accuracy

@john-nolton?ÿ Sorry, I missed replying to one of your points. Resolution isn't the same as accuracy (as you well know). If the resolution from the S...

4 years ago
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RE: Best Procedure for Surveying UAS Targets for High Accuracy

@john-nolton?ÿ I appreciate the point you are making in terms of theroetically what is needed for research, but there are so many other factors affec...

4 years ago
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RE: Best Procedure for Surveying UAS Targets for High Accuracy

@olemanriver?ÿ You are forgetting this is to look at the results from a Wingtra. At best the accuracies from the photography are going to be only to ...

4 years ago
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RE: GLONASS, GNSS, Ukraine

As far as the Uk is concerned, most smaller jobs can probably go back to traditional TS work. The only jobs which really NEED GPS are new transportati...

4 years ago
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RE: Wingtra Opinions

Using a 24mp Sony A6000 a 2 second intervals causes no problems with data transfer - 1.6 seconds is our standard and 1.4 or below is when occasional f...

4 years ago
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RE: described herein or herein described?

@arctanx?ÿ You shouldn't be up reading SurveyorConnect at 4 in the morning! In any case, in this civilised part of the world it was nearly 9 am. (Pe...

4 years ago
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RE: described herein or herein described?

Either is clear, but you upset the pedants by splitting the verb when you insert a herein. I always try and write anything so that there isn't a dist...

4 years ago
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RE: Mount for top of survey pole

Obvious question - what are you wanting to fit onto it, and why?

4 years ago
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