The good news is that it works, regardless of whether it is fast or slow.

The description is ambiguous. Is the creek the line or the course given? Could be argued either way. "generally along the creek" is asking for troubl...

If you are measuring a boundary, only concerned with local relative positions the main thing is to let the satellites move a little. If you are setti...

I have no experience with this. But somebody has to do it, apparently and if they can get the surveyor to do it and sign off that it is all of them, ...

If the deed explicitly says the property line follows the creek (riparian) then the traverse only needs to be as detailed as to get an accurate area a...

Loading seems to be at least as fast as before if not better. Posting replies takes a long time, and the "working" symbol flashes so briefly you migh...

The point of having 3 or 4 microscopes is to be able to average out centering error in the angle scale and variations in the graduations themselves. ...

While it's nice to know something about how GNSS works, your immediate need it to be sure you understand the coordinate systems and projections involv...

An injury can grab you about any time. Two weeks ago I was on a ten-minute walk to lunch with friends when I failed to notice the only patch of ice o...

@tickmagnet ChatGPT is at this time quite unreliable. It doesn't know, for instance, that someone can't get married after they die. It tries to do a...

The Surveyors Historical Society 2023 meeting is September 13-16 a little west of Houston. That would be another opportunity for people to meet.

It showed up 2 1/2 weeks ago The plumb bob icons seem to be located by their center instead of their points, which is confusing until you zoom in a...

Trying to imagine having to operate that precisely as you could get. wow. I seem to remember reading careful work under good conditions could get 5...

@rj-schneider You definitely need good eyesight. I think it was standard practice to carry a small magnifying lens.

Tell us more - date? History of owners/area used? On close inspection of the photos I now see it is Gurley.

@field-dog I guess in Florida terrain is a hypothetical concept.