Back in the days when you could tell where someone lived, just by their telephone prefix...
@jp7191 Absolutely!!!
I plan on retiring next year after I turn 60. At that time I will have 41 years of State service in, 29 with my current agency. Not sure if I'll miss ...
Wow, this thread goes back to the days when rest areas had hitching posts!
We designed and constructed (and also shelved) a number of metric projects in WSDOT back in the mid-90s because it was federally mandated. It was fine...
As far as difficulty goes, I thought the FS exam I took was much more challenging than the national PS exam. I was thoroughly unsure if I had passed o...
This reminds me of some control we inherited from another office a couple of years ago where the corridor was very narrow, zero cross-ties and adjuste...
It has been a very long time since I've staked any C&G, but we used to set H&T every 25 feet on tangents and at 5-foot intervals IIRC on curb ...
I've been wondering this for a while now myself. I know WSDOT still requires a 'to reach' description for new monuments in their database, and I still...
I have only one aluminum tripod, the SECO mini-tripod. It has been useful on those rare occasions when you need a shorty. And it will very likely be t...
We typically work with large coordinate values and our projects often stretch several miles, so the difference in U.S. Survey Feet vs. International F...
Oh, one more thing about TPC: in my opinion, they have everyone else beat with respect to price. You can produce good-looking surveys with it with muc...
A timely thread as I'm also looking for same. I have Traverse PC 2013 and although it works, it does have some peculiarities such that I'd like to get...
This is quite an old thread but one worth resurrecting IMO. Back when I started with WSDOT in 1991, we set L&T all over the place for centerline ...
As a surveyor in the public sector, my client is also the public themselves. I owe everything I can do for them. And this is especially true since gov...
It was good to meet you also, Doug, and I agree that it would have been great if more time was available to swap stories, e.g., that assumed elevation...
Almost as bad (and maybe worse, for that matter) is when software messes with things that it absolutely should not. Just recently I had prepared a pre...
We are finally getting significant snow up here in Lynden, near the Canadian border. Supposed to get somewhere between 5"-8" or so tonight. We had one...
Now if someone could write a Star*Net to Columbus format translator and vice-versa, that would be fantastic IMO. Hmmm... the cogs are turning-
