Measuring The site…….Observation 5

February 21, 2009 at 10:34 am Leave a comment

Our group (Toenjes, Seemann, Booth) was charged with identifying and plotting the utilities in within the Overpass area of study. We observed the locations of various sinage, utility poles, utility access points (junction boxes, curbstocks, manhole cover, etc.), storm drainage and basically any other type of public or private utility.

The locations of the observed utilities were annotated on a map in the field and later converted to a CAD Drawing to share with the rest of the class. There were 3 people in our group so we each did a third of the site and posted our results in our “00_working” folders on the server.

I have posted here on the blog an example of the CAD image I did for my third of the site along with the legend I made to describe the symbology.

The shapes are drawn to scale with the exception of the street lights. So everything is quite small and you will have to zoom in on the CAD file once you open it up.

I did not change the units so it is still in decimal and ready to be put into what ever scale/unit system you are using.

Anytime you see signage and or a street light next to a utility pole–assume they are pinned to the pole.