There are some work arounds. Say for example you layout your fire hydrant. Its under a tree so your not sure the shot is good. If its a single tree...

We have used locators but its been for engineering type projects and even then not very often.Its getting to be more of a problem where you call in fo...

Keep in mind what is being measured. Yes they MIGHT be getting the nearest 0.10' but I bet they don't know, but if you are taking shots on plowed far...

I always localize to at least 4 horizontal points, not two, and usually use a geoid model and one point for the vertical. I also check a couple of ot...

What kind of Topcon equipment? Our original set of Hipers we had (no glonass) would get a bad solution and stick with it until you lost lock and it g...

Its nice seeing the photos. The part of Illinois I work in was surveyed around 1816 and every original was always called out as a post in a sod mound...

GeoI will give an example of what I go through on a job.Say they want a 10 acres of topo with a boundary. You ask what for? They say subdivivision. ...

I must be lucky. I've worked for a civil engineering firm for 30 years and feel I've always been treated fairly. I get a little bit of the surveyors ...

They keep this up....Our first units were the original Hipers. It would get a bad intilization and you wouldn't always know it. You just had to be c...

I've been surveying for 30 years and licensed for 22 years and I've never found one. My general area was surveyed around 1817 and were a post in a mo...

The union certainly grabbed a slice of the pie in N.Y. didn't they?

Keep in mind what I'm saying was my understanding of what was happening in Illinois. The prevailing wage was only applied to construction projects fo...

For now at least it got shot down. I don't figure the battle is over yet. There is kind of a similar situation going on with material testers, such ...

Its my understanding that a judge threw it out since the Illinois Department of Labor didn't have a hearing on the issue like they were required to be...

That doesn't make a lot of sense. It would be like waiting to buy car insurance after and accident, its too late it won't do any good. Title compani...