I usually figure anything that takes batteries, such as radios, data collectors, computers, GPS, Total Station etc will last about 10 years.

A suggestion, which is what I do, is use a base and broadcast by radio. I've got enough control points around and there are enough points published t...

If you didn't have a lot of them you could put them in a spread sheet and cut and paste them in the order you want. Otherwise you would almost have ...

Just from my experience working with first timers, they often don't have the correct clothing, boots, cold weather cloths, mud boots etc.Me personally...

Most places discourage leaving strips of ground to stop streets being extended, I've heard them called spite strips.

If I were doing that sub and knew that parcel wasn't buildable, I would have included it with lot 50 and 51. I guess the question is, who owns it, t...

Dave Karoly, post: 425807, member: 94 wrote: He poked the bear, the bear nicely said stop that, but he kept poking the bear.This is my take also. The...

In Illinois, tags aren't used, I've never seen one, but this is a good example of where tags would be usefull. If the guy that set the caps was reall...

If the offset is the same direction, it MIGHT be O.K. to do that. Meaning if you checked into that benchmark with your network RTK and it was always ...

I guess I just don't understand the logic of not moving the gun over the point when you set up on it. Like someone above said, your surveying points ...

I slide it to match the point. Unless like mentioned above where you have the better level bubble on an adaptor, you gun will have a better level bub...

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...