CABL Forum - Re:Attention As-Built Mappers

I agree that quality mapping is important, and that attention to detail is a must, but my question is how do companies who hand you terrible maps (misssing road, streets, development, towns) expect you to be accurate? My last contract specificly said I would be provided with accurate maps, and when they werent they said "oh well, do the best you can". My issue is the attitude that I have to follow my contract to the letter, but the company doesnt (not that I havent been busted for missing a drop, or estimating a LD and the QC person wheels it and found that it was three feet over and neede to be mapped for hardline.)

>Quality mapping is the foundation for any project. Even in the best of circumstances the project will be impossible to manage if the maps are not completed properly. I am an excellent mapper and take extreme pride in what I do. I will not apologize for wanting to meet others who feel the same.
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>>>Darla you need to re-think how you post messages in this forum. Most cases of bad mapping are attributable to bad management. You must inspect what you expect! It sounds like you are a victim of your own half-assed project management. Take a hard look at yourself and disabuse us all of your ramblings.
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>>>>We would like to make contact with experienced mappers who produce TOP QUALITY work. 2001 is going to be a very busy year for us and we'd like to add good folks to our crew. We need serious, hard working people who take pride in what they do. HALF ASS mappers need not reply!!! Please contact Darla at (-REDACTED-)
>>>> HALF ASS< What an extremely proffesional way to putit. Too bad our industry can't be a little less coarse sometimes.
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