27th April 2012, 12:21 PM
overseas Wrote:Hi
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And, with one major exception, I have yet to see technology really gaining time and quality over hand-drawing, scanning and illustrator digitizing : rather, I have seen a lot of time lost - undoubtedly due to poor process rather than an innate flaw, but it keeps happening. Management also tend to under-budget the real post-ex costs of digitising fom rectified photography, behaving as if the "technology" has already solved the problem - as if by magic - on site.
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Although I agree completely with your sentiments.......but
In surveying say a half-collapsed Bastle surrounded by enclosures and ridge and furrow rectified photography of wall elevations, scatters of stone rubble etc. digitising, and plotting of enclosures and R+F from aerial photography was a million times faster than doing it by hand! Although this does depend on the speed/skill and dedication of those doing the digitising.
Upland survey is also lots faster using aerial photography (I'm talking about google earth) as an aid to site identification/location and in defining the extent of areas of remains. Again a million times faster and often more accurate than plodding over the moor in the rain alone.
Though neither replace entirely the need for skilled eyes (and feet) on the site.