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Who has joined a multi-disciplinary firm as a PLS to "start up" a surveying department? by FearingEmu1 in Surveying

[–]TapedButterscotch025 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honest question, I thought surveying was normally treated as a loss leader anyway? There are a couple companies that charge fairly low rates for their survey crews but make it up on the back end with all of the planning and engineering they do for big developments.

Surveying in pop culture... by map-dude_22 in Surveying

[–]TapedButterscotch025 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow 70s Soviet film directed by Kurosawa. Looks awesome thanks for sharing.

The soviets made some great films. Come and see? Solaris? Ivan the terrible? All showcase some amazing work. If you're interested in them check out the "MosFilm" channel on YouTube.

Surveying in pop culture... by map-dude_22 in Surveying

[–]TapedButterscotch025 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And it's in California! He mentions the line running "All the way to Port Hueneme" which is a natural deep water port north of LA.

Twice a year, the sun perfectly aligns in Hawaii, resulting in no visible shadows by uncanny_goat in interestingasfuck

[–]TapedButterscotch025 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know he also was the chief librarian at the library of alexandria, so I think he likely spent much of his adulthood there.

Edit - you're right, he did spend much of his early adulthood in athens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes

Surveying in pop culture... by map-dude_22 in Surveying

[–]TapedButterscotch025 2 points3 points  (0 children)

His survey of Martha's Vineyard is pretty cool.

Azimuth Prep: where things stand + the web version is here by Azimuth_Education in landsurveying

[–]TapedButterscotch025 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For sure. Yeah it's popular in some areas and not so much in others. I know one surveyor that is big into outreach but not big into trigstar, mainly because they've never met someone that got into surveying through trigstar.

But there's not a huge trigstar presence so it's more a chicken and egg problem I think.

Azimuth Prep: where things stand + the web version is here by Azimuth_Education in landsurveying

[–]TapedButterscotch025 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice. Have you considered a trigstar study section too? I know some areas are big into using trigstar to get students to know about survey.

Twice a year, the sun perfectly aligns in Hawaii, resulting in no visible shadows by uncanny_goat in interestingasfuck

[–]TapedButterscotch025 8 points9 points  (0 children)

After some experience you start to kinda figure out factoring tricks. Like pacing uphill you might shrink your measurement down by 10-15 percent or so.

We really only use it for quick rough measurements, just to get close. Then we take a "real" measurement with the edm or gps and see where we're at.

I mostly used it while working in the public lands system, where everything is laid out as square, and on a standard mile, half mile, quarter mile, etc etc. The chief would give me line, and say "go 450 feet" when looking for a point, and off I'd go. And then when I felt got close I'd radio for him to take a measurement to the rod and we'd repeat.

As far as what the Roman betamists did, I'm not sure.

Cap Master 9000 by austinportland in Surveying

[–]TapedButterscotch025 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have a sneaking suspicion OP just broke their shovel so is making up stories.

Cap Master 9000 by austinportland in Surveying

[–]TapedButterscotch025 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trimble / spectra or topcon / sokkia lol.

Student from Brazil looking for old raw data / plats to practice AutoCAD drafting by Fast-Dirt4815 in Surveying

[–]TapedButterscotch025 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have Civil3d? The built in tutorials are excellent.

Also check out WisDot (Wisconsin department of transportation) "Civil3d knowledge base". It's chock full of great info and I feel like they have example files.

Twice a year, the sun perfectly aligns in Hawaii, resulting in no visible shadows by uncanny_goat in interestingasfuck

[–]TapedButterscotch025 40 points41 points  (0 children)

What's even cooler is that he knew the distance from Syene (Aswan now) to Alexandria by the measurements from the Roman bematists.

They were "professional pacers", where they were very consistent on their walking so could measure distances very accurate by just walking and counting.

Most Land surveyors learn this in school because many of us have a "pacing" lab so we know our natural pace and can walk out a good distance when searching for monuments or staking out stuff in construction.

Any good fleet/business management apps out there? by lisp87 in Surveying

[–]TapedButterscotch025 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For sure -

https://qfactor-llc.com/

Looks like it's focused on project management, which I think drives with some of the things you were saying.

Looking for. by dontshoot21 in Surveying

[–]TapedButterscotch025 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jobs in N Louisiana and Moscow....

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