On Wednesday 16 April 2008 12:35, Michael Payne wrote: > Seems having two different feet plus meters can cause all sorts of problems > in surveying. The comments below are from the web site below. Read > paragraph three for what has been happening.
I was attempting today to use an SMI program to reload my points back into the data collector so that we can pretend to set some points. (This is for class, and the boundary research was so hairy we're not totally sure it's right.) The data collector got garbage, apparently because of null bytes in what is supposed to be a text file. We finally decided to print out a point list and enter the points to set and the traverse points manually. While the other guy was doing something, I looked around the SMI program and found that it can convert units, but only between meters and US feet. Land Desktop knows only one foot, and I'm not sure which one it is. The data should always be stored in the same unit, meters in this case, regardless of what unit is presented to the user. Doing it any other way invites disaster. Pierre
