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I did a tree height survey around a quarry for the purpose of dust abatement. Not sure what came of the data, but I had fun doing it. Got to walk some rugged terrain by myself with a tape and clinometer(Brunton pocket transit), and measure big trees.
 
I hate flat head screws and Amazon left a little over 100 pounds of delivery at the end of my very steep driveway. It's the one driver who told me he's scared of my driveway. At least I got my workout in.
 
Starting a new job, and I have to copy/paste coordinates from a pdf into a spreadsheet. About 550 points, and boring as shit. There's a whole bunch I don't need, but it would be more work looking at the plans to thin them out than to just put everything in and do it in the field. I'm actually lucky the pdf is good, and it isn't just a stickyback on a set of plans. Otherwise I'd have to compute/input them manually D^:

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Starting a new job, and I have to copy/paste coordinates from a pdf into a spreadsheet. About 550 points, and boring as shit. There's a whole bunch I don't need, but it would be more work looking at the plans to thin them out than to just put everything in and do it in the field. I'm actually lucky the pdf is good, and it isn't just a stickyback on a set of plans. Otherwise I'd have to compute/input them manually D^:

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If you're comfortable with python, pypdf should be able to handle that for you pretty quickly. Might be worth looking into if you have to do this fairly regularly.
 
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If you're comfortable with python, pypdf should be able to handle that for you pretty quickly. Might be worth looking into if you have to do this fairly regularly.
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For this project I just want to get it done, but I'll look into that going forward. Thanks!

Hard to tell what you're gonna get with plans. This is limit of disturbance, and sometimes all you get is a picture. I don't do CAD, so that means scaling off the plans(close enough for LOD). Even copy/pasting like an idiot is pretty luxurious compared to some jobs. Once this bulk crap is out of the way, everything else I'll compute with math, or use software.
 
I hate PDF files for that. Let's take data that is formatted, and put it in some proprietary format that is super hard to work with! That data was probably in excel to begin with too but then they hand it to you in that crap format.
 
UTMs are not to my liking. I understand they have a place if you're plotting a mortar attack but they are unpleasant to the eye.
 
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Weird seeing housing so close to the west and the mobile home park to the south.
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Yeah it's crazy how it got so close to housing over the years. That trailer park got evicted though, everyone has like 2 years to find another spot for their trailer, sucks for the owners! A house or apartment is going to cost more per month and most of them won't be able to afford that. But guess that's the risk of living on land you don't own.
 
A mortar attack you say?

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Pretty much everything I do is state plane, or assumed coordinates. The only time I deal with geodetic is in the process of converting to/from state plane.
 
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I'm actually lucky the pdf is good, and it isn't just a stickyback on a set of plans.
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Le sigh... This section is just an image, and I can't clicky click to select numbers. All hand entry. It isn't essential to get started on LOD, so I'm debating getting started entering it in the spreadsheet, or waiting to put it in the data collector. I still have to compute radius points for the alignment. I can do that with tools I have at home, but it's more of a hassle than doing it in the collector.

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Wonder if you can paste the spreadsheet image into AI and ask it to give you a CSV file. You'll still need to verify it though, so that might just take just as long.

As a side note do you play with Qgis at all? I played with it a bit, didn't really know what I was doing but did setup my property perimeter and imported it on my phone, was also able to add points of interest on my phone and reimport on PC. I was surprised at how accurate I got the boundary too, when I walked to it physically I saw the ribbons in the trees and was standing right on the line. This might actually be suitable to mark off location of utilities once I start adding those, so that I know where they are in the future.
 
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As a side note do you play with Qgis at all?
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I've played with it a tiny bit, but I *really* don't understand how it works. A bunch of years ago I was able to extract some data from county datasets the cadmonkey and boss needed, but it was only through hacky perseverance I was able to do it. It's a tool I could have some fun with, but isn't needed for work, and I don't find it fun enough to really learn.

If I'm gonna spend time, I'd rather contribute to openstreetmap. I can have fun with that also, and other people can benefit. A project I've had in the back of my head is incorporating historic quad sheets into openstreetmap to find and drive old road alignments. There's cool stuff to see on the old roads if you know what to look for.

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Oh, and my problem wasn't so bad. I knocked it out pretty quick. I still have to compute radius points, but that's easy enough. A lot of the coordinates were taken up by points of intersection, and I don't use those. Just have to keep the numbers in my head straight of what I put where. I pencil it in on paper plans, but I don't have a set at home. I'll do it after they get printed.
 
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Yeah it's kinda confusing to use lol. Glad it's not just me. Openstreetmap would be cool to play with too, just checked and it's missing lot of bush roads, could be fun to look into what the process is to contribute that data. Surprising all the data it does have already though, like even the names of unorganized township boundaries and such are all in there.
 
I don't mind it too much. Although for some reason, I now have to enlarge the text so I can read the page a little better. On 100% it comes off pretty small on my monitor. I didn't have to do this before.
 
Generally speaking I date in Jersey and Manhattan. Brooklyn and Queens are not that much farther, depending where in those boroughs, but adding in the extra river is definitely extra time no matter what. It's just more convenient though to stick to Jerz+Manhattan, so I have rarely even tried to connect with women in those boroughs.

I decided to be a bit more open-minded lately though. This year for some reason I have been getting matches with a lot of women in BK and some in Queens. All have been 44-52 years old, which is where I prefer to date. And very attractive. Had a lot of fun, great dates, some great sex. But it's all taking more time to go on them when I have to get to them, that extra river and all. It's a first world problem for sure.

Perhaps there are not enough middle-aged liberal single and attractive men in the city and these poor women are forced to consider Jersey peasants like myself. I'll take it.

It also builds upon itself. I was early for a date last night in Wiliamsburg, and she was running a little late too, so I grabbed a beer and swiped a bit on Bumble while I had time to kill. Today I have two new matches with two gorgeous women near my age in BK. I will suffer for the cause. Music + Kobo makes the bit of extra commuting pretty damn chill anyway. Last night's date insisted on paying for dinner because she was late too. I did buy drinks before dinner and after dinner at two different bars though.
 
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I put pawpaw and persimmon seeds in planters outside, and fucking squirrels dug a bunch of them up. I think all the persimmon seeds are gone. I netted them now, and I guess I'll see what happens.

My yard is a squirrel paradise. I have numerous fruit and nut trees/bushes, and it's basically all for the animals. How about leaving the little bit of stuff that's for me alone? If you fuckoff eating the seeds, you might have some nice trees loaded with fruit in a few years. I'll take a few, you get the rest. You won't find a better deal anywhere else on the planet :^S
 
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