Nate The Surveyor
Well-Known Member
This is just me getting started. I expect to occasionally populate this thread, with nifty notions, bad ideas, and good ideas.
Good things get started, when you write it out, and discuss it with others.
This is ALL related to STAKE TO LINE.
When using "Stake to Line", and you are in CAMERA mode, I'd like to be able to be 40' off line, and turn the LS Perpendicular to the line, and have the stake function use arrows, to SHOW the correct Angle, or Azimuth, for perpendicular. I work in RURAL Arkansas. LOTS of briars, and just general messes. While in this mode, push one button, and NOW you can use Plan B below.
This way, I can set the bipod up, and turn it to the correct angle, and then get chainsaw, and cut a hole in the brush, and stuff. Then, either hook the tape, or I place a 8" square plastic sheet on the rover, and shoot it with the LEICA DISTO. (This is shooting BACK at the rover rod, and LS, while working solo) This lets me either flag a straight line, or drive wood stakes. I usually have somebody else with me, and they hold the tape. Also, one of the WHITE buttons could show PERPENDICULAR AZIMUTH. We live and work in a rectangular survey system. Sometimes, I set my old unit, (TDS software) to "Stake a line" and I'm looking for certain numbers on the screen Station -1320' Go RIGHT 1320' This is handy to get me into the vicinity of corners, for searching. I was placing my hand in front of the camera, to give an adequate background, to read the actual azimuth, that is superimposed on the picture.
In STAKE POINT screen, there is an option, that gives you a BIG WHITE screen, with the azimuth and dist to the point being staked. This is also needed in OFFSET. It's hard to read the screen, when the Forrest is dark, and the direction and azimuth are displayed in faint red letters on top of the camera. So, here the White buttons would be handy. (It may be there already, but I have not yet found it)
(Here is Plan B) While I'm at it, another option that seems good, is to be able to be NON perpendicular, and it would figure the B/B int, and give a distance to the line, that is within 80° of Perpendicular.
So, it's a toggle button, for Perp, and NON perp offset.
These options would allow us to PICK a hole and distance in the really rough brush. I realize that the further from perpendicular you get, that the more error you introduce, due to the compass's lack of precision. Often though, if you are JUST FLAGGING a line, being off by 0.2' or 0.4' does not hurt things. It should also give a warning, that it is NON perpendicular offset, and that it is subject to magnetic interference.
I know it's early for me to get into the suggestions game, but I have been surveying since I was 7 yrs old. Every summer, I worked all of my youth. And, have been working full time since I was 15.
These are things I would use.
I have joined up with the Javad Team, and am bringing with me all my surveying background.
I am also learning alot.
The learning curve for the Javad LS has been abrupt. Mostly due to how I have always done things, is not necessarily how that everybody else does them.
Someday, I want to shake Mr Ashjaee's hand, and thank him for his contribution to land boundaries in this world. I am sure that he stays up at night dreaming up this stuff! I started out with 3 Locus units. Then, for a while used 6 Locus units. Then, the Legacy E units. Now the Triumph LS .
And, kudos to all the people that helped me get this new unit:
John Evers, Shawn Billings, Michael Gluting. And his polite Secretary, Mayette Sumajit. Also, my friend, and colleague, Steve Hankins, who also has a passion for surveying.
And, of course, this planet's owner: Thank you God, for a great profession, and folks to do it with.
Nate
Good things get started, when you write it out, and discuss it with others.
This is ALL related to STAKE TO LINE.
When using "Stake to Line", and you are in CAMERA mode, I'd like to be able to be 40' off line, and turn the LS Perpendicular to the line, and have the stake function use arrows, to SHOW the correct Angle, or Azimuth, for perpendicular. I work in RURAL Arkansas. LOTS of briars, and just general messes. While in this mode, push one button, and NOW you can use Plan B below.
This way, I can set the bipod up, and turn it to the correct angle, and then get chainsaw, and cut a hole in the brush, and stuff. Then, either hook the tape, or I place a 8" square plastic sheet on the rover, and shoot it with the LEICA DISTO. (This is shooting BACK at the rover rod, and LS, while working solo) This lets me either flag a straight line, or drive wood stakes. I usually have somebody else with me, and they hold the tape. Also, one of the WHITE buttons could show PERPENDICULAR AZIMUTH. We live and work in a rectangular survey system. Sometimes, I set my old unit, (TDS software) to "Stake a line" and I'm looking for certain numbers on the screen Station -1320' Go RIGHT 1320' This is handy to get me into the vicinity of corners, for searching. I was placing my hand in front of the camera, to give an adequate background, to read the actual azimuth, that is superimposed on the picture.
In STAKE POINT screen, there is an option, that gives you a BIG WHITE screen, with the azimuth and dist to the point being staked. This is also needed in OFFSET. It's hard to read the screen, when the Forrest is dark, and the direction and azimuth are displayed in faint red letters on top of the camera. So, here the White buttons would be handy. (It may be there already, but I have not yet found it)
(Here is Plan B) While I'm at it, another option that seems good, is to be able to be NON perpendicular, and it would figure the B/B int, and give a distance to the line, that is within 80° of Perpendicular.
So, it's a toggle button, for Perp, and NON perp offset.
These options would allow us to PICK a hole and distance in the really rough brush. I realize that the further from perpendicular you get, that the more error you introduce, due to the compass's lack of precision. Often though, if you are JUST FLAGGING a line, being off by 0.2' or 0.4' does not hurt things. It should also give a warning, that it is NON perpendicular offset, and that it is subject to magnetic interference.
I know it's early for me to get into the suggestions game, but I have been surveying since I was 7 yrs old. Every summer, I worked all of my youth. And, have been working full time since I was 15.
These are things I would use.
I have joined up with the Javad Team, and am bringing with me all my surveying background.
I am also learning alot.
The learning curve for the Javad LS has been abrupt. Mostly due to how I have always done things, is not necessarily how that everybody else does them.
Someday, I want to shake Mr Ashjaee's hand, and thank him for his contribution to land boundaries in this world. I am sure that he stays up at night dreaming up this stuff! I started out with 3 Locus units. Then, for a while used 6 Locus units. Then, the Legacy E units. Now the Triumph LS .
And, kudos to all the people that helped me get this new unit:
John Evers, Shawn Billings, Michael Gluting. And his polite Secretary, Mayette Sumajit. Also, my friend, and colleague, Steve Hankins, who also has a passion for surveying.
And, of course, this planet's owner: Thank you God, for a great profession, and folks to do it with.
Nate