Friday, 7 August 2009

Revival of the Surveyor's Chatter

After a few months of uncertainty, I have made up my mind and start up my own geomatic services firm along with a few trusted friends. I am also grateful to Allah that has given me the chance to partner with an owner of an established Licensed Surveyor Firm (and a good friend) and an IHO Cat A Hydrographer and advisor (a good mentor).

I will be reviving this site with new posts very soon. I will be posting updates on our projects, problem-solving employed and other Geomatic related post. If you have any queries and questions on Land Survey, Hydrographic and other survey related stuff, do post them to us and we will try to figure it for you.

Apart from that, we are also able to provide you with a wide range of professional geomatic services including engineering survey, title survey, sub division, partition, hydrographic survey, GPS consultancy especially RTK and also GIS. Just drop us you contact and we will get back to you.

Saturday, 27 October 2007

Surveyors at IKSB Annual Diinner 2007

IKSB Dinner 2007


Here's a link to the group photos of surveyors during the IKSB Annual Dinner 2007. However, there are a few missing faces. I'm not sure if they didn't get my message about the photo session, they are busy with other people, they have other urgent engagement, could not find the door or just could not be bothered. Anyway, there's always next year......or is there?

Monday, 17 September 2007

Using DTM-MERGE in Terramodel

Terramodel has a nice feature that can be used to update small survey into an existing dataset. For example, we have data of an area of 1000m by 1000m. Work was done to a portion of 100m by 50m in that area. A survey to update the data was then done in that small portion.

In Terramodel, we can take the original data and use the DTM-MERGE command to update the new data into the existing dataset.

1. Type "merge" at the command line. (The command can also be accessed via DTM pulldown menu)


2. An Input box as below will appear. If you already have your data in the proper layer, just select the appropriate layer. Note that the outside layer is the existing dataset. The new survey you want to update should be your inside layer. The merged layer will be your updated data.


3. That's it! The new data will overwrite the old data where the new data exist. The rest of the dataset remains. So you have an updated dataset.

There are several things to note in order to make sure this works. Firstly, make sure your link setting is set properly to represent the point intervals of the survey. Secondly, you need to do one survey area at a time. If you surveyed 3 areas, seperate them into 3 layers and update them one by one.

Good luck!