If no other details are given to define "best" then that's about all you can assume.

The way I heard it, a vertical control point is a Bench Mark. Benchmark has various looser interpretations.

Is it really geodetic, in the sense that it deals with a curved (ellipsoidal) earth, or is it just plane trigonometry?

Holy moly, what the heckYour Bovineness is believing in the registration accuracy of GIS?

The dilution of confidence>those nice plats from the 1950sIn my limited experience in this town, some plats are great and the field work may be als...

What's the allowable tolerance? In a quick scan of the NCAA document, I didn't see one for race events.If I were specifying it, I think I'd make the ...

Search this forum for Scott Zelenak's posts. He mentioned the difficulty of maintaining verticality several times.

Shows that people using measurements over monuments has been a problem for a long time.

1855 ManualFigure B is also reproduced in Dodds, Original Instructions Governing Public Land Surveys of Iowa, foldout facing p. 144. It is better tha...

Do you need to be worried about refraction effects when you get a grazing line of sight past some obstacle? I've seen some weird effects through tree...

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Not that I expect them to, but wouldn't it be nice if they set some interface standards, so that if they made a better data collector they could sell ...

Or you could go as far as needed in all directions until you found an existing monument, and proportion in the missing ones.

To get from 1 sigma to 2 sigma you multiply by 2. You don't use the ratio of confidence percentages because the statistical distributions are heavy i...