>>2783843Don't really use a compass that often and if I do I use it on my device. Sometimes you lose your bearings and don't know which way to walk your whole life essentially revolves around north.
Its usually between total stations (angles & distances) and GPS (coordinates, easting, northing, elevation) and it depends on the survey and what accuracy is needed. Following around ecologists and other contractors in the middle of the woods would be low accuracy = GPS, but also in the middle of the woods there is not much reception for the device so sometimes traditional methods can still be applicable.
Everything is digital now as this reduces most errors, you can never trust human computations.
tl;dr
You don't really use them often/at all but its always handy to have one on you.
