Back in the days of brass transits, the advice given in some books was "keep your instrument in calibration, but use it as if it were out of cal." If...

Duh! Slow brain here. I didn't connect the initials to the Benchmark Hunters forum. I see Holograph's statistics list you at 357 reports to NGS. Bea...

This illustrates a missed marketing opportunity. It wouldn't apply to a survey, but in the cartoon she could easily have said something like "For $xx...

Maybe not Surveying in Literature, but Surveying in Fiction:Norman Van Valkenburgh mystery series:Murder in the Catskills has 'way more history than m...

So what brings you to surveying? The bio sounded like you would be too busy writing for that or this forum.

br>I didn't figure it was the same Mr. Taylor, but there was a prior poem under his name on this forum:and he has posted about Virginia history, which...

You could probably get the solution even tighter....Is there an offset between Topcon and Trimble tripods, like there is for prisms? 😉

Compared to many newspaper articles I've read where I knew the original story myself, I'd say you got a pretty good outcome. At least nothing is flat...

>So +/- 0.06 feet at BOTH ends of each ½ mile line = ~ +/- 9 arc-seconds of Bearing, and +/- 0.12 feet of distance (~95% confidence).Minor point no...

Chains, compasses, theodolites, EDM, various GPS techniqes ... they give you measurements, and they all have systematic errors and random probable err...

Glad to see that someone else sees my point I tried to make above.It sounds like the present buyer isn't even the potential buyer that he did the work...

>I am contracted by a 3rd party to survey a lot that a bank owns via foreclosure. We don't get paid and file a lien.How is a lien valid against a p...

I Take It The BLM Does Not Understand The Whole PLSS ConcepTThe requirement may now be 21 ft, but most of the PLSS was completed with various larger c...

Dave's description sounded like an interesting problem, but this picture isn't what I envisioned. The east half of the north line is not close to car...