Training Log Archive: edwarddes

RIT

No fieldwork today. I spent the day trying to catch up on the drafting work instead. I have most of the eastern campus drafted now, but still a lot to do.

C • Brownies and beagles 4

Working my way west across the campus, and then filling in some holes in the east.
I tackled some of the hardest building areas today, where there had been recent construction and I had no good base data. Lots and lots of back and forth circling around to try and construct the proper geometry, and get the closure error down enough so that everything fits the way I want, and lines up with the appropriate approaches into the area. Its satisfying when it all works, but just takes a long time to really think it through to make sure its correct. It's easy to trust the wrong reference point, and start working from there, only to find that when you get to the other side of the construction site you're off by enough that you run into the next building, and then have to go back and try and shift everything to make it work. The eraser got a good workout today. I can't imagine trying to make a whole sprint map this way without good photos.

C • base map 2

In the main campus area. Much slower here since the photos were very shadowed, and I had to do a lot of back and forth between sight lines to try and get everything to line up and fit. The buildings are also taller, so it takes more thought to derive accurate building footprints from the photos since the roofs are so shifted.

East campus, NTID, Field house, track. Meant to also get the baseball fields done, but they have completely rebuilt them since the 2012 photos I was using, so I will visit them again tomorrow with the google imagery which is correct.

Starting the RIT map. After driving from Boston to Rochester I was only able to get in a few hours on the east campus area in between the rain.

Cabot Park