@a-harris It's not for snakes - there are zero species of biting snakes where I work.  It's more for water, swamps and keeping ticks and debris o...

@dms330 I'm glad I'm not the only one who does this! I keep an architect scale at my desk for that reason - the edges are razor sharp and can reach ...

Why is there a meander corner set where there doesn't appear to be a water body nearby? It's early yet, but I can't think if there's another situation...

If you can at least get it to look clean, you might be able to sell it online to a non-surveyor who wouldn't know (or care about) the difference and j...

I use a fixed-height every day for my RTK base.?ÿ I occasionally calibrate it by taking the legs off and hanging it on the wall bracket I use for my p...

Outreaches wouldn't show up on usajobs.gov because there isn't officially a position available yet.?ÿ The outreach serves as a tool to for management ...

@bound_hound I'm running 2018 AutoCAD OEM Carlson.  I tried typing those words using "text" and "mtext" commands.  Both times, it drew a re...

I was watching an old episode of X-Files the other night, and the opening scene was two surveyors doing some kind of stakeout for a new shopping cente...

Is "VRS" a Trimble proprietary term??ÿ If I'm using a Leica receiver (for example) to connect to the state's CORS stations via internet (which all run...

For those of you who took the test recently... How much of the materials did you print off for the test to have in hard copy form??ÿ I thought I'd jus...

I was a bit tongue in cheek about that... Well, what do you use as your basic font?

I've seen a guy do this with an old-school electric eraser, the kind that's about the size of a soda can with an eraser wand sticking out.?ÿ It totall...

It doesn't look too bad at first glance, but I'm guessing all that vine stuff is like barbed wire and you're constantly getting your feet tangled in t...

One my favorite things with Javad J-Field is the nearly unlimited customization of shot presets.  Every aspect of precision thresholds, averaging...

I'm actually pretty impressed with the amount of destruction that thing can absorb.

What makes these so accurate, compared to an ordinary prism on a tribrach? ?ÿ

I've heard some people say that magnetic media lasts much longer than CD's or DVD's... I don't believe them though.