Tom R said:How many planners can:
Draw watershed boundaries from topo maps?
Use a planimeter?
Know what a planimeter is?
Use a 3D aerial viewer?
Use Zip-a-tone?
Know what Zip-a-tone is?
Chet said:how about using COGO to create your first digital maps
Downtown said:In undergrad we used the 3d aerial viewer in Physical Geog, and Zipatone in Cartography. Haven't seen either since.
Tom R said:
Any other lost arts? Leroy lettering? Proportional dividers?
Tom R said:Leroy lettering?
Dan said:How about decent penmanship?
Dan said:Gad ... how many planners can still draft manually? How about decent penmanship? What about the ability to draw a map without GIS or Adobe Illustrator? Those skills have gone the way of pedestrian malls and streetside clocks.
Dan said:Gad ... how many planners can still draft manually? How about decent penmanship? What about the ability to draw a map without GIS or Adobe Illustrator? Those skills have gone the way of pedestrian malls and streetside clocks.
Dan said:How about decent penmanship?
peterb said:How about "Scribing ( negative drafting ), keylines, open window negatives, strip film & wax text overlays and calculating land use spreadsheets for a 281sq mile county (before PC's)
Mastiff said:Oh, man! What memories that brings. Scribing on ink sheets in the dark over a light table... They had these big lettering devices that were all flat except for ONE little point. When the lights came on for coffee break at 10:00, you could tell who'd been sleeping by the little tell-tale indentation on the forehead.
Dan said:Gad ... how many planners can still draft manually? How about decent penmanship? What about the ability to draw a map without GIS or Adobe Illustrator? Those skills have gone the way of pedestrian malls and streetside clocks.
mike gurnee said:Anybody still have an electric eraser handy?
Tom R said:Has anyone ever used those random dot area estimator sheets? Also, I have a proportional divider gizmo in my desk. One agency I worked for was so poorly equipped that we used to use the windows (real windows, the glass kind) to trace maps. I remember when the agency got its first PC. The director fought getting it and after we finally did he treated like a poisonous snake.
Michael Stumpf said:Remember before PC's when they had word processing machines? They were kind of like a glorified typewriter. I used one as an intern.
At one job we had a stand alone word processor that was about the size of a small desk. It had diskettes that were about 10" across. The powers that be (secretary) gave it up kicking and screaming. We actually found a machine at the local university that converted the data to regular diskettes. Lucky!
Dan said:Oh man, I was going to mention pen-based plotters. They're great!
Today, just for kicks, I tried installing a ancient 5 1/4" floppy drive that I scrapped from an old 486 into my spare computer. It works, but I couldn't get the PC to recognize the second 3 1/2" floppy drive.
michaelskis said:We still have many of the old school tools, such as a light table for tracing, an electric eraser