Feature A photograph of Columbian mammoth skull 79HS217, informally known as Beauty because of its excellent state of preservation The digitized form of Beauty Once pictures have been taken, it is time to use the Trimble 5600 Robotic Total Station for Surveying to collect coordinate information. The bone itself is never touched. The anchor points (washers) that were placed around the bone are shot and the coordinates stored in the Trimble's memory. Making a Perfect Map The photograph of the bone is adjusted to scale and printed so it can be manually digitized. Touching the digitizer's pen tip to each www.esri.com of the anchor points in the photograph determines the digitizer coordinates for each anchor point. The coordinates captured by the Trimble for the anchor points are assigned to the anchor points digitized in ArcMap. A polyline shapefile is created in ArcCatalog with the same bone bed number as Continued on page 26 The map image of Beauty superimposed on the original photograph used to create it. ArcUser Spring 2009 25