Hi All
Gross errors in measurements will manifest themselves in a traverse misclose. These gross errors are typically a distance and/or bearing error. How would you identify individual bearing and distance measurement errors by analysing a traverse misclose.
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Mat
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dear friend,
Please visit the website "www.esurveying.net", There are excel templates for various types of traverse misclosure using bowditch rule.
Regards
A Murali babu
Welcome to the surveying & mapping profession. You are likely already aware that we are moving away from error of closure for adjusting data in favor of positional error. However, the old traverse adjustment methods still have applications. You probably also know that least squares has many other applications in addition to surveying. It is amazing how many things vary with the square or square root of a measurement or quantity.
This has been a very interesting and helpful discussion to read! I am a 4th year geomatics student and currently studying the Least Squares method. Thanks!
Thanks for taking the time to give me some feed back Charlie.
Will.
Unfortunately a lot of the work I did was night shifts, i.e Road Closures, Tunnelling, Bridge and Gantry work where survey and setting out during day time shifts was sometimes impossible. I'm not saying what I'm doing with mobile phones is the best thing since sliced bread, I've just put it out there as another alternative. Something that's always at hand if needs be. All the software that you use on your desktop Charlie could be re- written to go on a mobile phone either as a native app or cranked onto a server and run as a web app. The only thing restricting mobile phones these days is the screen size. The last instrument I used (About 10 years ago now) was the Leica 1200 series and even then that was configured for uploading CSV files and had Bluetooth built in. MS Office is now available on mobile phone's and Bluetooth is a function that is considered quite old, but you could in reality interface your mobile phone with instruments for data exchange. I've got a feeling that this has been the case for sometime now?
I don't want to rain on your parade or anything. If that sort of thing works for you, then do it. Yes, you are right, with the precision of modern surveying instruments there is relatively little adjustment to be made. With the type of boundary work I usually do, I generally adjust a rectilinear survey to a GPS baseline established using static observations with a GPS base unit. My clients generally don't care what they own on a geodetic grid, they want to know what they can build or how much corn they can plant so the plat reflects the rectilinear survey. Reference coordinates for selected control points are given in State Plane coordinates. I feel that a good boundary survey today should be tied to a geodetic reference datum for obvious reasons. Pocket size computers or whatever have been around for a long time. No problem if you have one that runs on a cell phone. I have a HP 50G with a surveying module & my instrument has on board computing capabilities that will do most anything. I rarely use either. I prefer to collect data while in the field & concentrate on doing good field work & finding boundary control & evidence of occupation. GPS files are usually converted to RINEX format for post processing. I personally don't like anything "microsoft" for surveying & only use it because there is no other alternative. I will get rid of it as soon as something else becomes available. Windows is for social networking & playing movies.
Most of my work was relative to engineering surveying which included setting up of and monitoring control. All these points were initially set up by GPS and then Traditionally traversed in for greater precision. I wouldn't leave site unless I new everything that I had established was right. I too used to use programmable calculators (Ti 83 to be more precise) but then I discovered the power of Android (Not MS) which has a better visual affect and all the data can be sent out via the internet for further processing if needs be.
Just about everybody carries a mobile phone around with them these days.
I get misunderstood a lot. I never had any perception of you as being ancient. Today is my 70th. birthday so I would find it very difficult to accuse anyone else of being "ancient". To add a bit of color if you will permit me, I was once invited aboard the then British flag ship, HMS Juno, by the crew. I was stationed aboard the USS Bon Hommie Richard CVA 31, with VA 94 & both ships were in Hong Kong at the time. No offense taken but my name is actually Charlie, not Charles as is the usual case.
Thank you for your comments & it has been a pleasure conversing with you.
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