Reserve blocks of Pt# to various types of shots.Ex. Topo 1001-up, Control 100-999, temp 1-99, etc.Also sub blocks to different crews or areas.Each se...
I have and still use VB6.Could I make an .exe?
Only problem is that in the old days, if you were lost or trapped in a snowstorm, you could eat your horse.That's why cowboys didn't give names to the...
I started in 1973. I think we always easily attained 1/10,000, usually much better.We used to "double chain".i.e. each chain length had two pencil poi...
Yes, there is a way ...Could you also use a multi-file Search/Replace?I think UltraEdit does this.Find 1 National Geodetic Survey, Retriev...
I don't suppose younger surveyors will be allowed to climb the tower to have a unique and thrilling experience available nowhere else evermore.I had t...
Yes, probably repo.I like US Civil War and Old west stuff and have several fine repos that I wear on occasion.Would not think of wearing an original.T...
I have been campaigning for SPC base on construction projects since the early 80's.Was too radical for anyone back then. Glad to see everyone has come...
Just thinking out loud.Even if you have a long project going in the most "distorted" direction.(ex. N-S in a Lambert system)Wouldn't you have a pepper...
I'd like to use this opportunity to ask a question.Many years ago (like 35) I heard a surveyor refer to (in a general way, generically) another survey...
Actually, yes.The forms we filled out, if I recall, had some sort of date/value table thing.and...When the monuments were set they were initially all ...
I see what you are saying and I will agree.You need some way of "flagging" weak measurements and deal with them.My only added explanation would be tha...
Forgive me but I had to ask a good friend who is fluent in Japanese to look at this.Of course it's pure gibberish.Thinking about it now though, I'll b...
We used to do a yearly flood control dam monitor survey.Angles, distances, levels up the ying-yang.One year in the Dam Keepers office I was completing...
OMG!!!This was one of my biggest peeves.Early in my career we had a simple angle to turn, two legs.I set up the gun and for whatever reason backsighte...
I'm getting a craving to find that sextant and go to the beach and play with it again.Maybe some of the bikini clad ladies will assume I'm a rich old ...
Hey, if you are along the West Coast of California, that difference could be achieved in like 10 years. Make sure of the coordinate Epoch used and adj...
When I was a younger whipper-snapper and starting out in Surveying I took an Adult Ed class in Celestial Navigation. Was also prompted by a previous a...
HP-41 Calculations JournalI may have a set of these somewhere.If I run across them I will attempt to scan.Might there be a place to "store" them?Met ...
