2nd February 2011, 01:29 PM
moreno Wrote:.. Having been old schooled in surveying i.e. with a compass, back sighting, triangulating and using a dumpy level and stadia rod, these skills still come in quite useful.
I agree and that will always be the case (Old dogs - new tricks etc), but one of the great advantages of modern survey equipment is it's efficiency, not least that in most cases it allows a job previously reliant on two or more persons (surveyor and stick boy, chain girl, pole holder whatever you called it) to be done by one. And the post field processing from data download to finished map or database is infinitely faster and more accurate. And (I think we had this discussion before) costs of either purchase or hire are not prohibitive .... I think we estimated per week hire charges in the UK roughly equal to the cost of employing one field assistant....
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