@norman-oklahoma I worked for 67 years, in surveying for 62 years, a registrant for 58 years - and never once did I actually use the stated basis of b...

There is a reason the elevations in my COGO that are not valid are stored as 99,999 feet. Makes it absolutely clear those cannot be good elevations.

Once you are fairly certain where the rebar is or was, get out a shovel and dig. Attached is a photo of an ACP from decades ago, one foot down and ove...

Back in the days when I was busy doing commercial properties of all kinds, like shopping centers and apartment sites, I had an efficient routine down ...

My solution, assuming I copied the original post coordinates correctly. Point 4 is my calculated average radius point. It appears 251 is an outlier, s...

@gene-kooper Gene, love the photo of the leaning stone in a meadow with the mountains in the background. Sigh, those were the good old days.

"Thing to remember about RTK is that you're always going to have 1-2 cm. of error floating around which is well in excess of your 0.02'." Au contrai...

Haggard is one of my favorite authors and highly recommended. Start with Smith and the Pharoahs - delightful short story.

@burkc Is that my old friend Burk from Bricktown in Oklahoma. My oh my, this is a pleasure. My take is that AI will be embraced by the lower tier o...

Real canopies, like the kind shading pumpkin sales at Halloween, have no effect on GPS signals.

Retired now, thank goodness, but I would never have allowed AI to handle any data, especially if a judgement call is needed. Also bear in mind that AI...

January 1964, on the far end of the Fort Lauderdale airport, Don Fell said to me, "You could probably pass the land surveyor exam." And I had no idea ...

Pure guess - hand annotation and no proofreading by a professional.

Retired in 2025 after working 67 years, the last 62 in surveying, the last 58 as an RLS, the last 25 with my own company. I gave away all of the equip...

@norman-oklahoma Yay, for years I kept a copy of Strunk by my desk. Brevity!

When I did a topo it was always a 25' grid (easy with the GPS display), all break lines, and extra shots to show contours of any piles of dirt. It was...

@alan-chyko I've surveyed coast to coast and border to border, so I'd say not regional.

@bill93 Not in the slightest. Wattles covered this subject quite well.