In my area, they mostly surveyed the actual boundary lines along the boundary lines, or they worked on offsets if needed.

Illinois and Iowa. Mainly work in Illinois.

Not going to happen for 2k unless its a very used setup.

At least with my Survey Pro there is a tab under the "Survey" menu group titled "Projection Calculator" This will give a scale factor for any given p...

I work in Illinois which is also traverse mercator I think. I'm a little weak on explaining this stuff but my understanding is the scale factor chang...

If you are working in state plane coordiantes and using GPS, the choices don't really matter much as far as scale factors go. If you are mixing EDM s...

Why not stick a nail in the ground or a rebar and set the base on that? Then if you have to go back you have a base point to start from. How long do...

I did this about a month ago, except I talked the entire 50 minutes. It was a GIS class but was mostly AG students and geology students. It was actu...

I've done a couple. One was just a cinder track and they were converting from metric to english or the other way around, I don't remember. Synthetic...

I'm sorry, even if he does find it, it won't count in my book. It looks like you already know where it starts and ends. Thats why I do believe peopl...

Call me a skeptic also, it doesn't work. As many times as I've seen it work I've seen people not be even close. That said, I do have a certain specia...

I've done it for my father in law and a brother in law. Its never been a problem. I either did it for free or almost free. I do agree though, if it...

I agree, they are trying to say horizontal. I almost always show ground distances. A couple of time I have used the distances from state plane coord...

I have one comment, but not answers. If you want data from an actual GPS base point, its not really VRS is it?

I can't tell if thats real or some kind of joke. How does it help security if you can get a key to turn it off for $10 a month? If its on or off it ...

Bill93, post: 420544, member: 87 wrote: Please explain. I thought the most recent official update was Geoid12B several years ago, with a preliminary ...

NGS updates the Geoid daily, you just have to know to install the updates! They model high rises all the time.

Small world, we have a new employee that is from Nepal. She is 29 years old and her husband teaches at the local university. She told me the story o...

I assume, and am pretty sure it was all first order stuff. They came through our town but I never saw them. I think the marks are published on the N...

In Illinois we have right of entry. I don't normally contact land owners unless I see them or know for sure they are home. I used to play that game ...