David Held
New Member
When creating a direct offset point with a compass bearing and distance, will the offset shot be appropriately adjusted if DPOS is utilized for the "anchor" point?
So in simple terms, the only way to have a good offset point is to have a good verified RTK shot for the anchor point?The position of the offset point will change if the base point changes (Autonomous to CORS). It will not change between RTK and PPK for the anchor point.
Agree completely Steve! I’ve complained about this process since it’s inception. The offset function, and as Nate mentions above, when used by selecting the offset whitebox and not by using COGO, is a wonderful feature but is extremely dangerous.WOW! This is a horrable and dangerous way to process the data. Warnings should be posted in bold print everywhere.
Danger Will Robenson!!!
Here is one user that calls this a programing flaw and request a software update/fix.
Hmmm....didn’t know that. So, I “could” go into offset through the collect screen, create my calculated point between two recently collected pins in COGO and it will store it in survey points?Darren those are good thoughts but a bit off topic.
1. All offset point observed from the collect screen should produce Survey Points, never design points.
2. If you want your calculated CoGo points to move with DPOS automatically, I recommend using Offset in Collect instead of CoGo. This way the resulting points are Survey points and not Design points. As far as I know every CoGo method for creating a point is also available in the Offset options as well.
Well said Nate.While we are discussing offset shots, is there a way to enter all the offset shots, WHILE it's shooting the "anchor point"?
Since it's obvious that OFFSET shots from PPK will need to be done, can we include the ability to ENTER the offset shots, while observing the anchor point?
And, MULTIPLE offset shots from the same anchor point would be appropriate too. Sitting on a point for 20 mins, doing nothing, then having to enter the shots is not field efficient.
thanks.
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The only complication is that you can't select your anchor points from a list or from Map, you'll need to know the point name.