I take grid shots and break lines, often lots of extra shots in bumpy areas, and sometimes also follow the contour lines in the field. The computer ge...

IBusiness Management Handbook by Bill Beardslee, PLS, PE, PPIf you mean the one by Dan Beardslee, yes, it is well worth it, but only if you have the c...

Ooh, that is a nice plotter. Wow. I'm impressed. Good job, HP.

The sample legal description they have on their website is poorly written. I bet you would have trouble plotting that legal if you didn't have a sketc...

Sort of in the general area, although I've not yet read it: Through the Yukon Gold Diggings by Josiah Edward Spurr of the US Geological Survey, availa...

Carl,Now that's funny. You made my day. I doubt you would learn much surveying from him, though. Not the kind you would want to learn, anyway.

The problem is not the clutter. The problem is someone, like an engineer or an architect, using the record data when they ought to be using the measur...

That's true. It is in paragraphs with actual punctuation, leading one through the points in a reasonable manner.

Didn't the Cochise County surveyor use a wagon wheel with a rag tied on it for surveying, in the 1880s. I think his name was John Rockefeller? The wag...

Are you doing any rotating before or after switching to the total station? With Leica the GPS data will be rotated back, but the total station data wi...

I have long noted an increase in accuracy after the rover has settled in for ten seconds or so. I suspect the unit may be that accurate if the tractor...

Last week he called and wanted a price over the phone for the four corners of an address, just like that. I told him to send me an e-mail and I would ...

Depends on the person. I have a broad college education, especially in business, accounting, and science, plus I'm a conservative risk taker, so we ha...