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Contouring: Drawing the Shape of the Ground
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Contouring: Drawing the Shape of the Ground

A traverse gives you the outline of a site. Levelling gives you the height of the points you happened to stand on. Neither tells you the SHAPE of the ground between them — which is what you need to know where water will go, where a building will need cut and fill, and whether a path can be walked. A contour is a line joining points of equal height. Nobody surveys contours directly; you level a grid of spot heights and then work out where each contour must cross between them, by proportion. The map that results is the single most information-dense drawing in surveying: slope, drainage, volume and visibility are all readable from it. It is also the rung that makes the water blueprints buildable. A constructed wetland or a drainage run needs to know which way the ground falls, and by how much.
Pertengahan
2 days

Arahan

1

Lay out a grid over the area

Set out a square grid of pegs — 5, 10 or 20 metres depending on how broken the ground is — using the right-angle method and a tape. Letter one axis and number the other, so every peg has a name like C4. Choose the spacing from the SMALLEST feature you care about, not from how much walking you are willing to do. A 20-metre grid cannot see a 5-metre gully, and no amount of careful levelling at the pegs will put it back. The grid is a sampling decision, and it is made before any measurement.

Bahan untuk langkah ini:

Pasak kayuPasak kayu40 keping
Tali sipatTali sipat100 metre
Kit bendera dan pancang ukurKit bendera dan pancang ukur1 kit

Alatan diperlukan:

Pita UkurPita Ukur
Tukul kukuTukul kuku
2

Level every grid point from as few setups as possible

Set the instrument where it can see the most pegs, take a backsight to your benchmark, then read the staff at every visible peg as an intermediate sight. Intermediate sights are cheap — one instrument setup can produce twenty heights — but they carry no check at all, because nothing closes on them. So move between setups on a proper backsight-and-foresight change point, and close the whole run back to the benchmark at the end. Speed on the intermediates, rigour on the change points.

Alatan diperlukan:

Aras optik (ukur)Aras optik (ukur)
Staf arasStaf aras
Tripod kameraTripod kamera
3

Write the heights on the plan, at the pegs

Plot the grid to scale and write each reduced level beside its peg, to the nearest 10 millimetres. Write them small and consistently placed — always above-right of the point, for example — because you are about to draw lines through this drawing and it must stay readable. Do not round to the nearest 100 millimetres to tidy it up: the interpolation in the next step needs the real figures, and a rounded grid produces contours with false steps in them.

Bahan untuk langkah ini:

Kertas GrafKertas Graf10 keping

Alatan diperlukan:

PembarisPembaris
4

Interpolate the contour crossings

Between every adjacent pair of pegs, work out where each whole contour value falls, assuming the ground runs straight between them. Mark each crossing with a tick. The assumption of a straight slope between pegs is exactly that — an assumption, and the only one available. It is why the grid spacing chosen in step 1 governs everything: between two pegs your map is not a measurement, it is a straight line you decided to believe in.

Alatan diperlukan:

PembarisPembaris
5

Join the ticks, and obey the rules contours cannot break

Draw smooth lines through ticks of the same value. Then check them against the rules: contours never cross, never split, never simply stop inside the map, and close on themselves or run off the edge. They also point UPSTREAM in a valley, forming a V that aims uphill — which is the quickest way to read drainage off a map and the quickest way to spot that you have drawn one backwards. Every one of those rules follows from a contour being a level line on a continuous surface, and a drawing that breaks one has a mistake in it, not an unusual landscape.
6

Interpolation, interval and what the map can tell you

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Alatan diperlukan:

PembarisPembaris

Bahan

4

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CC0 Domain Awam

Blueprint ini dikeluarkan di bawah CC0. Anda bebas menyalin, mengubah, mengedar, dan menggunakan karya ini untuk sebarang tujuan, tanpa meminta kebenaran.

Sokong Pembuat dengan membeli produk melalui Blueprint mereka di mana mereka memperoleh Komisen Pembuat ditetapkan oleh Penjual, atau cipta iterasi baru Blueprint ini dan sertakan ia sebagai sambungan dalam Blueprint anda sendiri untuk berkongsi hasil.

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