For many of my projects I don't have professional surveys so I shoot my own grades and do a bit of ocular estimating. I am working on becoming more efficient in site modeling so I'm looking for opinions on the best way to go about laying out those grades in preparation for creating a site model. So far I have laid them out using the stake tool as source data and the boundary tool. Opinions?
I used to do that. Now I just wave my iPhone around and do lidar scans to collect the data and surface. That and/or the drone. They are not as accurate as a good survey, but neither is running around with a notebook, rod,and level 🙂
The time savings are incredible.