But the planning department assures me that 0.0033 is OVER 0.003, so I cannot build my mansion! ?ÿ If you start with significant digits informed by ...

I think it is about the same??ÿ (1/12)*.040=0.00333

Generally, the engineer hires an out of town surveyor that will tell them they can hit the tolerance, and then no questions are asked.

Or...find a known point, and see which one is off by 0.25'

The answer is D. ?ÿ There is a reason we say that you don't have to be a good surveyor if you find the original monuments.

Interesting...all of the ALTA/NSPS surveys I do are paid for by the buyer.?ÿ It is their title company that wants it, right? The buyer should put the...

Need more info. How many times has it walked around the barn in the same direction?

Different world from the PNW. 16" is barely a tree up here.

Active prisms are nice for layout with a bunch of total stations at once on a single floor. But, since I am not a carpenter, I have no use for them.

To be fair, while we might think "anything is better than nothing", in their world, they are (understandably) hesitant to mix data types. As state abo...

When rotating onto control, I always had my initial observations in one file, copied the coordinates into a new job(file) and worked on them.

I agree.

@bama7x57?ÿ ?ÿ Did the Hemisphere work with Carlson data collector??ÿ Beware that where Carlson markets their receivers, they do not support hemisph...