I'd do that as standard practice (after all that is the "rod" height you are using). It's surprising how often you later want to know the rough height...

@totalsurv?ÿ For knocked about corners (or indeed good ones) we made this up. The back quadrant isn't there so it leans up square against the wall co...

You missed out the one over-sarcastic one! and the "trying-too-hard" one!!

@tim-v-pls?ÿ Agreed, assuming there isn't already a mark in that concrete (and assuming there is enough headroom to get a drill in to make the hole!)...

As far as barbed wire is concerned (and electric fences for that matter) a 3ft. length of pipe lagging - the lightweight expanded stuff?ÿ - is ideal. ...

Code it as a "normal" feature and add an attribute note. Then IF it needs to be a separate new feature change it, otherwise it is still coded as somet...

I'm sure I commented on something similar a couple of years ago. If you are sticking anything down a sewer where you might not be able to recover it s...

Just to tidy up the public face of this thread: Pairs of outbuildings (coal stores/outside toilets) are not uncommon on pre 1930s properties When the...

Wild NA2 still in daily use - you have to put your hand to the instrument body to point onto the stave - just press the button and ....PEACE OF MIND.....

@jay1980?ÿ This discussion probably needs to move to private messaging, rather than clutter up the forum. I'll respond in the next day or so. In case ...

@dmyhill?ÿ Sorry, missed the first point. Although buildings are better than nothing, in the UK there is no system for accurately updating mapping fo...

@dmyhill?ÿ In the UK the ownership rights would be everything within the Red Line - arguments might then be about what the Red Line represented. The ...

In the UK (and some other places) we have a system of "General Boundaries", partly because land ownership goes back to pre-Roman times. The plus side ...

One tip I forgot to mention earlier. If you stick a reflective target on a window in each/most rooms (facing outwards, for those who haven't thought i...

@wendell?ÿ That sounds like a good way of limiting it to the USA. Some older parts of the (civilised) world don't have monuments - not the surveying ...

@leegreen?ÿ Scanning is fine if the operator is doing it all the time. The problems start when one is hired and the operator doesn't look behind the ...

It's a really difficult question, this one. Yes, the idea is good but... Those of us from outside the USA who might offer support understand that rea...

Mine arrived today, many thanks Wendell.?ÿ Really good quality. Those of you who haven't ordered had better get your credit cards out and do so. Wend...

It all depends.... What the purpose is, how old the building is, .... With old buildings where the walls aren't plumb and the building isn't square ...