Collimate the intrument and see what that tells you. I'm guessing your tripods & tribrachs are probably fine as evidenced by the older instrument'...

I was gonna say, the pastors I've had the priviledge of knowing would have without missing a beat given the guy his 15 seconds of 'fame' - not to disr...

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yep, the quick & easy sol'n ;-).For a self-enacted goof though, I like knowing more than just "what the gun tells me it is"

> Are the correction values universal for any EDM or must I get specific? No - Yes you must get specific.> How would you do it?I would calc the ...

Mr. Gelder Does Not Understand Surveying Body Of KnowledgeYep, it sure seems like the profession has diverged from its engineering & geodetic root...

> I'm still using autocad 2000 with LDD. i use a point label style to generate my topo data ... little x and the elevations to the nearest tenth.....

Same lead ballon effect as at the seminar. My own 2 cents, I think the good Doc recognizes the need to treat the symptom, but has the cure all wrong. ...

>Wouldn't it be nice to see that surveying was required? Wouldn't it be nice to see that a PLS was required to supervise this mapping?> Possibl...

Not for nothing Don, but if you shaved the scraggly beard & put away that wine bottle, you'd look a little less disheveled 😉

If all you want to do is self-practice boundary or construction, call it good. If you actually want to be considered for options in photogrammetry, re...

My go to gun early on was a Topcon 3C. Great gun, reliable, the handle batteries lasted long, could do everything we needed it to. Eventually, got kin...

I cut my teeth w/ the held standard that anything on a reel is a tape - steel or cloth. The mantra drilled into me upon exiting the truck was "pins-bu...

> grab the 100 chain out of the truck...> > poor kid had no clue of what I was referring to.Could it be he actually knew what a chain was, an...

I guess I don't understand the tendency to equate 'learned' or 'knowledgeable' with educated. People like to have to study only that which they practi...

> All I want to do is sue the guy in small claims, but I can't find him. Besides, I need the articles of incorporation or whatever filings to do s...

> NEVER utter the words, "You drew this wrong.". They didn't, you did or you did not clearly express your intent.LOL - I think its safe to say "oth...

Here's the atypical response of the group: I fell into surveying in the mid 90's to keep a job with the same company - I was getting laid off from env...