Tha's better than what I did several years ago. Put it in my vest pocket, opened a manhole, leaned over, and away it floated.

It helps if you understand the psychology behind it:People who have high self-esteem will go to you and have a rational discussion. They will start of...

You use it badly, you get bad results, which is exactly the same as a total station, data collector, transit, or steel tape. I just don't see a need f...

Late newsWow, who saw this coming:I delivered the survey drawings and the invoice. It wasn't much, but I could tell he was in shock. All he wanted was...

I had a warehouse owner ask me last week how to find the width of the "easement" in front of his property, and I finally figured out he meant the righ...

What Holy Cow said.

Over 51 years in surveying. Been unemployed five days in that time - three days while I drove across the country to a new job, and two days between le...

For the power pole, which obviously has to be on an offset: PP MN3For the anchor, which has to be rotated: GUY SW (meaning the guy is hanging to the S...

There was also the one yesterday about the driver who was updating her Facebook page from her phone......when she crossed the median and had a head on...

In the old days at the large firm, our researcher, Billy Plunkett, was allowed to take the original plats out of the courthouse and bring them back to...

Do you have a calibrated baseline in the vicinity.

I use SFN, which I lifted from some California surveys. I find it helpful to know that someone Searched and Found Nothing.

Yeah, but, half a pound times several miles in a day times 250 days in a year times several years adds up. Go for the lightest and best, I say.

I haeGPS ROVER POLESI have the standard metal two-piece fixed pole that came with the rover, but I bought an extendable carbon fiber pole that is my f...

At one time when most of the country was rural, ICS was very big in long-distance education. Years ago I met Archie DeGroot, who ran their survey curr...

Good Heavens. That's dreadful. An attorney, eh? Well, who would have thunk it. My "Do Your Own Appendectomy" was tongue in cheek, but at least it was ...

That was always a sore spot with me at the big firm. I would provide a realistic survey budget, the higher ups would discount survey in order to get t...

A copy of the original data file for each day goes into a download subdirectory. The name convention is DDMMYY plus two letters suggesting the name of...