One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was to read (whatever) backwards to check for spelling mistakes. That way you won't be distracted by the r...

@mike-marks: And the results are probably the same in each case.

There's a built-in feature for adjusting the vertical on my Nikon DTM-520.?ÿ Easy peasy. I used it every day for 71 remeasures of a traverse used to ...

Maybe the sidewalk isn't skewed but the points found are at different offsets to the right-of-way. And, yes, if the CIty, County, utility, or whomeve...

On a train traveling from D.C. to Seattle a passenger asked to be awakened when the train stopped in Chicago because he had a very important meeting t...

Our former neighbor owned a trophy business.?ÿ He would bring us scrap walnut pieces about 1 inch square, sanded all four sides and random lengths, no...

One advantage of deflection angles is when the traverse lines are to be connected by curves, the deflection angle is equal to the delta, or central an...

@jph: They are correct.?ÿ The deflection angle is exactly the supplement of the interior angle. The sum of the deflection angles in a traverse should...

I say the easiest and best way to get invert elevations is the two-prisms-on-the-rod method. You can hold the rod at any angle and get horizontal and...

When working for the big municipality we had to cone off a right turn lane.?ÿ There was room for drivers to turn right from the lane to the left of it...

My last experience with Caltrans was in a city that wanted to install a left turn pocket in the existing raised median to access a shopping center. Th...