Price depends on finding somebody who can put it to good use, and what else they see available. Ebay has a lot of old total stations offered for $250 ...

Check out the software suggestions. Check out your county's GIS if they have it on line.?ÿ Many of them will give you state plane coordinates at the m...

Definitely?ÿ not good.?ÿ If you study the standards, they want individual legs to have balanced backsight and foresight within a pretty close match an...

Reflectorless adds value above a lot of old units, but I would check very carefully whether any data collectors will work with it. What I read said it...

I knew the basic facts, but forgot which was P and which was Y, and didn't bother to look it up. ❗ Most times in equipment or RINEX you see it ref...

You can get ITRF and transform with reasonable accuracy to WGS84(xxxx), and that will be a small difference. What is available only to authorized use...

Three big guys on the hayrack? We often just had me age 18 and my sister age 14.

I had two reasons for getting into a technical career.?ÿ I liked to tinker, and I had put in enough hay at 95?ø F.

Break the curve into two curves having the same radius?

It would seem important to maintain comparisons against multiple reference points, so if one turns out to be not stable it can be identified.?ÿ What i...

It would have saved a lot of confused posts if you had copied exactly what was there when asking for an interpretation.

Here's a site dedicated to low technology methods. Section 2 details the steps to stake a line between two points that aren't intervisible.?ÿ Good ...

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DIY for a tenth of that if you have a few tools in the shop. There are lots of reflectors and magnets available out there.

If you are curious about compass adjustment on a ship, find any edition of Bowditch American Practical Navigator, or Dutton Piloting and Navigation. I...

Isn't it true that an owner anywhere can survey their own land if they want, but their results are not binding on the adjoiners, they must not alter m...

Given that it is not an active RR line, that would be an excellent way to turn the angle to the line with a transit.?ÿ But holding a compass over or n...