Every participant in the project was "party chief" for a half day and responsible for the survey of a certain part of the castle."My" part was the area around control points 67, 68 and 69. It was next to the burial mound shown on two of my photos; at the fortification shown in the background in one of the photos.As first step on the way to a map, for each half day of survey the "party chief" hat to draw a plan showing the control points used (66 to 70 in this example) and the recorded ground points (1 to 415 in this example).The plan is not to scale but should show the structures you can see on the ground. In this example (drawn by me) a ditch between two earth walls (a part of said fortifications), crossed by two dirt forest roads.This plan should be drown in in the field, but as the one I drew there was incomplete and almost unreadable, so I had to drew it again. This was even more complicated, as everyone of us was only allowed to use a single one of the foils we used instead of paper. So I had to erase and redraw it piece by piece. (However, I wasn't the only one who had this problems, as it isn't too easy to draw while running through the forest and looking for "interesting" things like bigger holes in the ground or mounds of earth.)As I already mentioned: I don't like drawing by hand.This plans where used in the next step to identify the breaklines.(Sorry for the bad quality of the picture. We were not allowed to keep the plans, so I had to take a photo in the field office.)
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Since 2007, Land Surveyors around the world have shared their best Surveying Photos from the field. Inside this collection you can transport yourself to virtually any location on Earth and see how Land Surveyors work, types of equipment being used and environmental challenges associates with being a land surveyor in that location.
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