When screwing the rod onto a prism assembly or the GPS head – keep a firm grip on the gps head and turn the rod. If one has to be fumbled, I’d prefer ...

Specific Tip: Know safety and pay attention to safety briefs and lessons. Your #1 job is to come home safely to your family. There is precisely ONE PE...

No matter how much you think having a good tripod is critical to precise work...you are underestimating it. Keep the tripod adjusted and well taken ca...

What are you going to run it with (software wise)? I agree that it is "greasy" of Carlson. If you live in the northern areas of the US, they may still...

I have to be honest. The new format just doesnt work as well for me..But I will start a NEW THREAD!!!

When we are “finders of facts”, in most situations, our “facts” are what we have found, recorded and illustrated based on our interpretation of the ev...

I’m of the opinion that ALTA surveys are often a pale shadow of more comprehensive retracements. For a number of reasons, but mostly because they are ...

1) Where does it say, anywhere, that we have the legal authority to apply case law and/doctrines to decide where lines are when it comes to possession...

There is nothing that says “cheap” like some of the tawdry tat offered up by certain equipment manufacturers. It was interesting that one of the big m...

I contacted the state board about this and laid out the details in an email with attachments. They replied to me quickly but were clueless as to what ...

Which state board is "Our Board?"?

BTW, if you are in the Civil3d world, ACAD has a solution in ReCap for processing photogrammetry.

Just here watching the beat down on mulambda382.

Close, they measure from the center of the circle, and subtract the radius of the circle.

Intersect the tangents and fillet a curve using the record radius. Explain what I did and why on the record of survey. This produces a retraceable lin...

I’m at a bit of a loss as how to handle the spiral curve though. When I’ve worked with horizontal curves in the past I get the tangents set and then l...

I’m going to have to incorporate the use of a 6″ carpenter’s level in my field operations. It must be way more accurate than the vile level or dual-ax...

It was the first article I found, but the point is that I had no idea that Leica had an "athletics" module for their software, like they do for roads,...

Here is how to use the Leica TS16 for athletics

I wonder if they are on grid or ground? Maybe measure from 3 locations in both D and R and then least square adjust? The rod with the low prism is ind...