If you use the theodite apps on your phone cameras they should geotag the photo and date stamp them. I think there are mapping programs and apps (QGIS probably has a plugin for this as well). If you use QGIS and have your underground pant in a mapping file, you can do most of that all in one program.
QGIS has all kinds of neat plugins to do specialized work. Since it's an open source platform, there is also plenty of internet and YouTube support as well. You can't beat the price..... https://plugins.qgis.org/ Thank you, Brian Webster www.wirelessmapping.com -----Original Message----- From: AF [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chuck McCown via AF Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2021 11:37 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Cc: Chuck McCown Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Tracking UG locate requests They do it to us. I do it to them. Especially if I am in the engineering phase I place tickets for geotech soil sampling... Generally the paint and flags last a few weeks, so go put paint back on the old paint. Not sure how we organize photos. Dates from meta data would get you most of the way there. -----Original Message----- From: Nate Burke Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2021 9:25 AM To: Animal Farm Subject: [AFMUG] Tracking UG locate requests For those of you with underground plant, how do you keep track of your Locate requests? In our area, lots of micro 5G cells are being installed, so we have multiple locate requests for the same area. First the City replaces the utility pole, then the Electrician bores in a power feed, then one or more telcos bore fiber to the pole, this process takes 2-3 months. Around here at least, they are very lax about their actual start date. May get a locate request in on Tuesday saying boring work starts on Thursday, then a week later a re-mark request comes in, then a week after that another re-mark request before they actually do the job. Each one of these requests generates its own locate ticket. It's easier to just pull the pictures to re-mark instead of hooking the locator back up, since they are usually for about 40'-60' worth of locating through their work area. How do you keep track of the pictures of different locates? The locate Ticket number is useless try to find it later. File them by fiber path number, handhole number, GPS Coordinates? -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
