I've always understood a broken-back curve to be two curves in the same direction, separated by a short tangent section. They were used in the embryon...

I remember years ago in a PLS refresher course (long before I actually had my license) where we calculated the number of angle sets we would have to t...

@toeknee I purchased a copy using the link you posted. You were spot on with respect to Mike's efficiency- I think I had the key within the hour! Now...

@toeknee Thank you!!

@toeknee I did take a test drive of CHC's GEO2 about 18 months ago- I successfully blew it up by throwing a ton of reference stations in (more is bett...

@toeknee That's really good to hear, thank you for sharing the info. SurveyGNSS looks like a pretty decent piece of software, and within my budget as ...

It is possible to post-process Emlid data using their Studio PC program for PPK (which I believe uses the open-source RTKLIB, etc. as an engine). I tr...

I bought a pair of Emlid RS2s for a base/rover setup because the total cost for the pair was less than a single unit from some other manufacturers. As...

[SNIP] I bought Carlson’s SurveyGNSS post processing software and am wondering if it will process RINEX files with PPK kinematic markers in it. It...

I think the last time I used a Lenker rod was about 30 years ago when we still had three-man crews, no digital levels, no robotic total stations, and ...

Except for a VERY brief period, I've always had mechanical keyboards with the PCs I've built myself such as I'm typing on now. There is simply no subs...

We as a field crew never did; we would note the direction bent and shoot the center of entry into the ground. As a public sector employee who wasn't l...

I learned a fair amount from POB in my greenhorn days as a surveyor in the early 1990s, even though back then it was 100% construction surveying for m...

Many years ago I staked the centerline of a dith at one station because I was so tired... A local contractor several years back wrote "Back of crub" ...

Back in the days when we booked observations, my PC taught me to take the average of each individual D/R set and throw out the high and low ones; we d...

Should there be a space between 'helmert' and the '+' sign?

It's been a very long time since I read Point of Blundering. Years ago it was pretty good IMO, I especially enjoyed the legal articles.

I'll refrain from commenting since I work in the same state. I do NOT want to get banned.