8th February 2011, 07:16 PM
well why didn't you say so in the first place. i quite agree that digitally shared information is a must, however having worked on sites where the only form of recording was by datalogger and that info was lost when the tech went down, having a written back up would have saved a lot of grief. as you may have gathered i am an illustrator who started life as a digger and that experience has been invaluable. i'm all for people understanding every tier of the job by having a go but how do you do that in the cyber unit? i always scan and distribute my work digitally as i already work in a sort of cyber unit, but the original finds are still drawn by hand and reconstructions are still mulled out and done by hand. sections and plans are best drawn on site and reproduced digitally. as i like to call them 'dots on maps' always look better for publication in a digital format and saves on printer costs. so i do sort of see where you are coming from. but and this is a big but there is still a place for the paper record. other wise you will be spending more and more time updating onto more recent formats. i have floppy discs of stuff that i can't access any more because the programs don't exist. ( yes i've been at this a long time too.) so... if i were honest i would probably benefit from what you are suggesting as i live in both worlds but it's a lonely life and i look forward to the visits from and to clients. well i'm off to have a cyber cup of tea in the cyber tea hut... on my cyber tod. ho hum