Pictures!

Hey guys,

Here’s an update on what I’ve been doing lately: taking pictures.  Now, I know you may be asking yourself, “What’s a civil engineer doing taking pictures?”  You’re not alone.  I had no idea why I was taking pictures either when I was first given the task.  It’s only now, that I’m done, that I realize that pictures are an invaluable resource when it comes to analyzing a site.  The pictures I was taking were of existing conditions, so that we know what’s on our site and what might be standing in our way.  As it turns out, it’s not easy to put a sanitary sewer line in someone’s backyard if a building is there. That’s where the pictures came into play.  They gave me the most update information about the site and all I had to do was take short notes about what I saw and match them with the picture.  This helps you remember information about the site later on when you come back to work on the project.  My suggestion to you is take as many pictures as possible and take good notes.  I took aerial photographs from a local GIS website and wrote down my location and the direction I was looking when I took the picture.  Now, go take pictures.

 

Ryan