Too pricy for me. I've been fascinated by them for decades. If I had nothing else to do (ha) I'd get more shop tools and try making one. I recall so...

Be glad you are a surveyor and not a title examiner assigned this project.

If you are in Ohio you might want to check out the Surveyors Historical Society event in Marietta in September. They have a reasonable student rate. Y...

My handheld GPS / phone says so. /s

If you are using only two points, be sure they span the majority of the project length, so that slight errors are not leveraged into big ones.

In the US, rebar is probably not the best choice for control points because it is so widely used for property corners. In our city the Streets departm...

I once met a guy living in the same city with all three names identical to mine except that he was William and I'm not. At work there was a Beatrice w...

I just now read a post elsewhere from an acquaintance, saying he was scammed by a cloned web site. He tried to buy something from a site that looked i...

Be sure that you have defined what coordinate system you are working in. GNSS will be converted to some projection which has a scale factor and may be...

When using Least Squares you can add any reasonably accurate measurement you have, along with its probable error. You are not limited to a traverse. ...

Are these marks whose published lat-lon data was found with GNSS? Did you get the data from the DOT or elsewhere? I'm thinking of the NGS data sheet...

That's the book I kept by the bedside for years. Can't find a better one on how surveying was done at the time.

We used to have as a forum participant the late Joseph "Jobo" Glidden, whose great grandfather (?) patented one of the common barbed wire designs. I'm...

I suppose some might appreciate it. It seems like push opens a can of worms. I'm a luddite, still searching Windows for the button that says "Looks ...

I don't remember that subject coming up, but there haven't been very many from Arkansas.. If not him, then DDSM?

@monte-king I'll study your examples. @dpuffett Hey Don - Good to see you around here. Still surveying? I've been collecting the available inform...