FlaSurveyor, post: 410040, member: 10854 wrote: I have tied flagging and ran it up as I back filled the hole, also have just dumped extra flagging in ...

aliquot, post: 410345, member: 2486 wrote: Mapping improvements is time consuming and requires little proffesional judgment.I think the the profession...

If this practice continues the Clerk and Recorders Office will to be full of unstaked recorded plats. We as Surveyors are entrusted with preserving bo...

Your right R.J. a fixed backsight would be a backsight at a fixed height which may not be the same as the foresight rod. This allows you to check your...

This reminds me of a subdivision that was originally an aliquot part of a section surrounded by forest service land. Years later the forest service de...

Backpacking the rover sounds like such a good idea, until Murphy's law bites you and you just hiked 20 minutes up a steep grade to find out the base i...

I purchased a HP color laser printer last year for about $400 which I thought a the time was a good price. It does an excellent job, however, when it ...

epoch date, post: 409078, member: 485 wrote: Regular Autocad (I'm in 2009 right now) generates this geometry with the tangent functions on both ends.D...

I remember working in New Mexico, we would do mortgage surveys where a portion of a larger parcel was mortgaged usually with a new home or mobile home...

christ lambrecht, post: 408472, member: 284 wrote: Tip of the day!Take 2 measurements, top of Pipe and Bottom of pipe, may help in avoiding An additio...

I have always liked the station and offset method where everything is based off of centerline. I have noticed a change from that method to coordinate ...

There must be a file size limit on the free version, my son told me today that when he tried to open the drawing today that a message popped up saying...

Dave Karoly, post: 408340, member: 94 wrote: This is what is known in the trade as an "original boundary."Only if you can get both parties to agree of...

I understand the issue with the height, but I just don't have as much faith in the rod bubble vs the tribrach optical plumb. Most of my gps work is RT...

I use a Dutch Hill fiberglass for the base. It's the best tripod I've ever used.

A right angle prism and a concrete nail