Nate The Surveyor
Well-Known Member
Post your dreams here. Keep them honestly related to what you see as possible.
ie, no mechanical impossibilities.
Here, I'll start.
1.) My dream for the Javad LS is:
That it has a visible red laser line, to simply put line on the for forest floor.
Something like this, built in:
http://www.tjsolution.com/products/Laser guidelight/Main laser guidelight_LD series.html
This would be super handy for setting a corner. Set the LS up in the clear, aim it back in the woods, at the correct angle, and it tells you "ahead 8.22'" Set the GPS up carefully, measure with the box tape, with visible line of the forest floor. Set temporary dimple, and move the LS up, to the dimple, and press START.
This would get you very close, for the FIRST observation.
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2.) Distance Distance intersection, in stake out.
I actually did this yesterday, in the field. I needed a D/D intersection, to HUNT for a corner.
I used Stake Point, in conjunction with "Dist to last" to perform a D/D int. It got me within a few tenths, and the Shonstedt revealed the buried corner. Which, I then dug up, and observed.
So, we could add a white button, that takes you to a screen that says Double Point Stake.
Enter the two points to be staked, and it now gives you a up to date:
Azimuth, Bearing, and dist to 2 points at the same time.
This would allow a quasi B/B int to be used too.
It would just be a handy search tool.
Of course, we could do this sequentially, ie, Stake one, then the other... but, hey doing them together is faster!
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3.) I'd like the Dist to Last button to display the Bearing and distance to the hundredth, to the last 5 shots, (If there is room, make that 10 shots) when pressed.
So, if you were collecting a couple of shots on the SAME point, it would look like this, AFTER pushing that button:
89 to 90 N 14°28'13" W 0.025' UP 0.05'
90 to 91 S 86°15' 24" E 0.085' UP 0.08'
91 to 92 N 16°12' 02" E 0.042' Dn 0.02'
92 to 93 S 61°48' 49" W 0.13' UP 0.22'
93 to 94 N 49°23' 26" E 0.086' UP 0.16'
THEN, at this screen, one more button allows us to LOOK AT CLUSTER graphically, and to scale. This way, we can quickly observe shot spread, in the field.
THEN one more button, that allows you to MAKE CLUSTER AVERAGE of just that cluster.
ALSO, if you press LOOK AT CLUSTER, then it will include previous shots, that are within the cluster limits. And, there is a button to UPDATE CLUSTER AVERAGE. So, now you can modify the previous cluster point.
Now, you can write that point number down, on your field cheat sheet, and use it for further computations.
ALSO the above would allow you to REVIEW a series of TOPO shots through the woods, to see that things looked right, before moving on.
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OK, maybe I have kicked off this "Javad Dreams" thread. Hopefully it will generate fodder, for the programming team.
Thank you!
Nate
ie, no mechanical impossibilities.
Here, I'll start.
1.) My dream for the Javad LS is:
That it has a visible red laser line, to simply put line on the for forest floor.
Something like this, built in:
http://www.tjsolution.com/products/Laser guidelight/Main laser guidelight_LD series.html
This would be super handy for setting a corner. Set the LS up in the clear, aim it back in the woods, at the correct angle, and it tells you "ahead 8.22'" Set the GPS up carefully, measure with the box tape, with visible line of the forest floor. Set temporary dimple, and move the LS up, to the dimple, and press START.
This would get you very close, for the FIRST observation.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2.) Distance Distance intersection, in stake out.
I actually did this yesterday, in the field. I needed a D/D intersection, to HUNT for a corner.
I used Stake Point, in conjunction with "Dist to last" to perform a D/D int. It got me within a few tenths, and the Shonstedt revealed the buried corner. Which, I then dug up, and observed.
So, we could add a white button, that takes you to a screen that says Double Point Stake.
Enter the two points to be staked, and it now gives you a up to date:
Azimuth, Bearing, and dist to 2 points at the same time.
This would allow a quasi B/B int to be used too.
It would just be a handy search tool.
Of course, we could do this sequentially, ie, Stake one, then the other... but, hey doing them together is faster!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
3.) I'd like the Dist to Last button to display the Bearing and distance to the hundredth, to the last 5 shots, (If there is room, make that 10 shots) when pressed.
So, if you were collecting a couple of shots on the SAME point, it would look like this, AFTER pushing that button:
89 to 90 N 14°28'13" W 0.025' UP 0.05'
90 to 91 S 86°15' 24" E 0.085' UP 0.08'
91 to 92 N 16°12' 02" E 0.042' Dn 0.02'
92 to 93 S 61°48' 49" W 0.13' UP 0.22'
93 to 94 N 49°23' 26" E 0.086' UP 0.16'
THEN, at this screen, one more button allows us to LOOK AT CLUSTER graphically, and to scale. This way, we can quickly observe shot spread, in the field.
THEN one more button, that allows you to MAKE CLUSTER AVERAGE of just that cluster.
ALSO, if you press LOOK AT CLUSTER, then it will include previous shots, that are within the cluster limits. And, there is a button to UPDATE CLUSTER AVERAGE. So, now you can modify the previous cluster point.
Now, you can write that point number down, on your field cheat sheet, and use it for further computations.
ALSO the above would allow you to REVIEW a series of TOPO shots through the woods, to see that things looked right, before moving on.
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OK, maybe I have kicked off this "Javad Dreams" thread. Hopefully it will generate fodder, for the programming team.
Thank you!
Nate