Land Surveyor Forum

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  Lalith Senanayake September 24, 2015 at 12:32pm

  Hi Mohmoud,
  
  This profession start from simple surveys,use of total station is simple,but the product (plan) has so many information.
  Start a simple chain survey then you will get what you wan
  
  Study first about errors and mistakes we do and how a field note is maintained.
  
  Specially the theory behind "the mathod of whole to part"
  
  Cheers,
  Lalith
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    Lalith Senanayake > Lalith Senanayake September 24, 2015 at 12:38pm

    PS:
    
    I was one of pioneer surveyor to establish GPS controle for State Of Qatar
    During 1994,I was attached to Cetre for GIS Qatar,
    
    Lalith
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  Mark Sidler February 10, 2015 at 3:11pm

  Thanks for the effort.  I will do more testing. Sorry.  This error typically occurs because in the readme first file, it explains that the zip file should be moved into the DC_Survey folder and unzipped to that folder.  There are several reference folder/files and RESOURCES is one that needs to be in the  DC_Survey folder.  That may help but I will check further.  Thanks again.

  Mark
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    Mahmoud Khalifa > Mark Sidler February 13, 2015 at 11:08am

    Hi,

    after following the read me file, I installed the application successfully.

    it looks great and helpful but i think it's required more planning to be much more familiar to all users levels starting from the newbies like me to professionals like you.

    if you allow me to help you with it i will be thankful.

    Best Regards.
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      Mark Sidler > Mahmoud Khalifa February 14, 2015 at 2:13pm

      If you can locate the Documentation folder, there is a user manual that will guide you from start to finish in the process and options available for the using the software.  Let me know what you think after following that manual.
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  Paul Quagge December 31, 2014 at 12:37am

  Hello Mahmoud,

  What is the PLSS?

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Land_Survey_System

  What is State Plane?

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Plane_Coordinate_System

  What is Geodesy?

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesy

  Here is some general reading material....I'm sure your country has some kind of geodetic reference system...otherwise you can use the stars...

  http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/row/landsurveys/LSITWorkbook/04.pdf

  http://www.cadastral.com/cad-polr.htm

  Its all about a reliable starting point that you can base the rest of your survey on.

  How did early explorers cross oceans and deserts?

  Take Care and Thank You!

  Paul
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    Mahmoud Khalifa > Paul Quagge January 5, 2015 at 1:10pm

    Hello Mr Paul,

    Seriously WOW, free references most of them over wikipedia and government document with UNBELIEVABLE amount of information, I never thought we can find that much of information for free like that before.

    that is amazing post from you sir I really appreciate it.

    i wish now to ask you more questions if you don't mind of course:

    lets say that I start my surveying project using total station with reference point from my company or supervisor, lets say its coordinates for that point, can we use handy navigator like Garmin devices or mobile GPS Navigation? Or it will be useless because its not accurate enough?
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      Paul Quagge > Mahmoud Khalifa January 7, 2015 at 8:35pm

      Hello Mahmoud,

      Your welcome.....After your starting point has been checked against existing information "Check Point" start your survey.

      At this point I would recommend that you research this sites tutorials on basic surveying...If you do not have a mentor, find some survey equipment and experiment, there is a lot of real time information on how to do everything....read,attend seminars, do an internship, volunteer to work for nothing in exchange for instruction, get a part time job as a rodman, pay attention.....surveying is an accurate science, you need to learn the basics to maintain that accuracy....Ok

      Take Care, What country are you from?

      Paul
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  Paul Quagge December 8, 2014 at 12:31pm

  Hello Mahmoud,

  First I would suggest that you research your existing reference system. Your municipality or government authority should have a geospatial department that could advise you of existing monuments that you would be using.

  Paul
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    Mahmoud Khalifa > Paul Quagge December 18, 2014 at 5:31pm

    Sir Paul,

    thanks for your reply and your valuable advice. I have a question about reference system, can you describe it little bit for newbies like me :) ?

    thanks again :) .