Hypothetically speaking of course
Say you were doing a Record of Survey as-built for a State agency for an aerial fiber on a 60 year old pole line, say for your friendly DNR who had management authority over the land and it happened to be in a very difficult area to work, like mountains and glaciers difficult, in the middle of winter because that’s the only time allotted to you to work on the project because the rest of the year your fully committed to construction related activities. Nothing on the pole line has ever been surveyed. And say another State agency, maybe the DOT/PF had already done a very extensive survey through the entire project area and tied in all of the control you would need and set reference control monuments roughly every thousand feet through the highway corridor and recorded their coordinates along with the rest of their survey data. So the question is how would you react if DNR told you that you would be required to reinvent the wheel and survey all of it all over again because that survey was done for DOT/PF and this one is for DNR. Everything that you’ve tied in matches the DOT/PF data with +/- >0.1′. One particular corner is separated from the traveled way by a 200′ deep vertically walled canyon covered in ice. When you ask if you had can hold the DOT/PF values for the corner on the far side of the canyon, you’re told ‘we don’t dictate when you do this survey. Maybe look into one of those flying squirrel suits.’
Sigh… hypothetically.
It will be nothing short of a miracle if I don’t become the most cynical surveyor on the face of the planet before I hang it up and that part isn’t hypothetical.
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