Transits and Curves
These days most professional folks (in the land surveying business) use ready-made computer programs to determine things like road curves and such. For other folks, like me, who just do things like this as a hobby, it is nice to have a simple program to do some of the crunch work. I have a program I have developed that calculates a simple curve that can be used to lay out a road curve, or just a circle drive. It is most useful just for fun to practice surveying and using older equipment. I like to use theodolites and transits rather than total stations.
Also, it is a good thing to ‘rescue’ older transits from the dust heap as they are a piece of history.
So, I will link this to the program introduction for your reading pleasure. Click on this link to access the article.
The program is written using the “R” programming language. I have been exploring “R” and find it will do things other than statistics, data reduction or analysis of “big data.” It works for scientific/mathematics pursuits as well. In fact, this post was generated and uploaded using the “rmarkdown” package. A complete website or blog site can be created using “R” packages. More on this in later posts.