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Those of you who use solar shots for azimuth,-Do you use the hour angle method or altitude method?-how do you do your timing?-what accuracy do you ach...
Here's the course list for AAS degree:and the summary of the Surveying 3 course:This course introduces engineering field surveys, equipment, and metho...
Private Road?There is a link to a drawing on the first Reddit thread, which is linked somewhere in this forum's thread.First thread on RedditImage:<...
The OP may not be telling us everything. I wonder about that driveway back to the shed or garage. Was it at one time an access to the land that is n...
In that thread there is a link to a good summary of easement law.
We have a problem, Houston!The voltage needed to light a LED varies quite a bit with the design and color. I haven't played with a recent crop of the...
Do you have old control still in place? Even if not, it should be pretty quick to resect on some permanent features, stake out the old data and note ...
OK. Here's the Mark III GLOWSURV Back SightHow about a scrap of red theatrical lighting gel, or just some colored wrapping material, between the light...
You probably need to chase the history back to when the wording was first used for this parcel, and also determine if the road has been transferred in...
OK. Here's the Mark III GLOWSURV Back SightHave you tried them with the instrument in the dark, at the expected distances? I wonder are they perhaps ...
At our latitudes, a right angle eyepiece is not essential, but sure would make Polaris easier.I doubt magnification would give you much improvement un...
Updated again per suggestions from Justin (summerprophet). It now contains sheet 2 as a straight grade calculator.The sheets are protected to keep yo...
Excellent questions so far....well, except for you-know-whoThe temperature and pressure conditions that cause refraction could put a few parts per mil...
Excellent questions so far....well, except for you-know-whoIf the reported distance was short of 10 meters, it could be a cycle slip in the slope dist...
Time to put the cork back in the bottle, Don :-PH.C. it's tempting to think it is a 10-meter cycle difference, but it doesn't come out quite close eno...
A somewhat improved version of my spreadsheet is at the same link. It cleans up the junk after the useful list and adds a couple calculators at the s...