Retiring Surveyor

[CosmicTruth]

(01-27-2018 05:19 PM)Michael de Estrada Wrote:  The same situation occurred in the drafting profession with the advent of CADD systems.

Not so much in the Drafting department, when you think about it, The draftsman just moved behind a computer.
In the field Surveyors lost 1 man with the EDM (no tail chainmen), Then with the Total Station invention the Party Chief was moved to the Rod. Then the Robotic Total Station and GPS got rid of the Instrument Operator. So the old 4 man crew is now 1 man.
Machine Control systems now has the Party Chief just installing the Surface model into the dozer and doing some base setup and surface checking.
In the near future the surface model will be on the cloud, and the machine operator will be eliminated. So surveyors might need to become truck drivers in the near future. Actually being a truck driver wont work either, maybe a computer programmer? Someone will be needed to program the robots!