19th July 2013, 07:12 PM
Quote:What? Clutter up our "stories" with some awkward logic and facts? Never!
After teaching people the pencil way and the use of levels and the appliance of science ( or Harris ) over teh past week., in addition to digital survey with Penmap, a new system of OSL dating married with Bayesian Stats and C14 as well as other more modern techniques including Octocopter survey
I am happy in both worlds. and anachronistic I may be. But I still hold to the belief that to use the new... it is good to understand how it got there - certainly my students were happy to play with dumpies, plane tables and stadia tach as well as good old SOH CAH TOA and then press the button on the total station... knowing how and why the point appears, what you need to get that point, why you took the point there... and what to do if the winter storm washes away the section of tarmac road that your fixed points were located.
The button that says... Help... was no use :p