6th May 2010, 12:43 PM
kevin wooldridge Wrote:....My fear is that the technology represented by GPS starts to become the end result rather than GPS being used as a tool. I personally think that the traditional archaeological methodology in the absence of fixed survey points of starting from the smallest and working up i.e first link your feature/find to a grid, then link your grid to a site boundary, then link your boundaries to local topography, then link your topography to the National Grid is still the most efficient and accurate practice. More importantly it was one that everyone could understand and work with....
On the basis that I'm lucky to see a surveyor once a week with the modern state-of-the-art mega-bucks thing on a stick, there's no danger of the old string, randomly stretched tapemeasures and tripping-over-gridpegs techniques dying out in the foreseeable future. On the plus side, at least any fixed points I've left don't all need to be (ideally) intervisible any more. Also it's a good way of spotting that members of the workforce haven't mastered the basics of the optical level... :face-approve: