This popular and useful text has been completely revised and up-dated so that it forms and indipensible handbook for any student of surveying.An additional chapter on modern developments is included and the text has also been extended to cover ordnance survey; calculation of areas; computation of true horizontal length; measurement of vertical angles; Code of Measuring Practice; curve ranging and calculations of volumes for earthworks.
Introduction - what is surveyingBasic principlesLinear measurement - principles and equipmentLinear measurement - fieldwork practiceLevelling - principles and equipmentPractical levelling and contouringAngular measurementBuilding surveysSetting-outSurveying by the plane tableModern developments
'... presents an excellent foundation in basic methods and techniques of land surveying ... well illustrated and would be of great interest to any student studying for a career in Building, Architectural or Civil Engineering professions.' Quantity Surveyor,
Marc Becker, Dea Loher, Gert Loschütz, Claudius Lünstedt, Friederike Roth, Kerstin Specht, F. K. Waechter, Simon Werle, John Clancy, Thea Dorn, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wilfried Happel, Barbara Honigmann, Ulrich Hub, Gert Jonke, Fitzgerald Kusz, Karlheinz Braun