I'm usually out of bed at 0400 or thereabouts, alarm is set for 0425 and it wakes me up an average of twice per year. I'm also one of those with an in...

It's not really a COGO app, but there is a data collector app for Android devices that 'works'. There may be some COGO utilities in it, but I've never...

Some of these are as bad as "Found calculated position in field"...

I've never seen this in a ROW acquisition but to some degree it makes sense to me. It's quite possible they wanted the portion between the centerline ...

My Cisco router is still doing quite well, although they got out of the consumer market a few years ago. They might still make commercial-grade hardwa...

" What does it mean if the Chi-Square Lower Bound is exceeded?"It means your survey was too good, i.e., the tolerance parameters may be set too high o...

I've seen too many instances where re-written deeds actually introduced ambiguities which did not exist in the original description. I suspect it resu...

I ran the instrument for about three years before becoming a PC. However, I bore a lot of responsibility before and during that time, especially when ...

In the office I work at, we've been a Leica shop since I started there over ten years ago. Once in a blue moon there will be a hiccup of some sort, bu...

Definitely a hit-or-miss purchase with goods from China. I have one tribrach that's halfway decent and another that is not. Prisms might be OK for gen...

We just staked anchor bolt locations for a 90-foot steel square tube sign bridge a couple of weeks ago; these structures have VERY little tolerance fo...

We use both Viva (SmartWorx) and Carlson here. My outstanding(!) instrumentman prefers Carlson while I tend to use Viva for fieldwork, though I can ru...

^^THIS.^^Such a process also helps if you inadvertently zero the gun when you should've keyed in an azimuth, et cetera... (though redundant shots may ...

We've had issues in the past with inability to export RINEX data because of older firmware/LGO clashes, and our ancient (2006) GPS-only Leica 1200 uni...

In the days of slide rules and trig/log tables, 477.5' was most likely the value used for the radius; in this day and age with super-whiz-bang calcula...

...you research current and superseded highway R/W plans- on the route you traveled or are traveling- while on vacation (done it).