@norman-oklahoma The Leica equipment will "fit" anything...but they are not suitable for many Topcon Robots. You need Topcon tribrachs, and you need ...

@350rocketmike My experience is that Leica or any of them need to regularly have the robotic aiming calibrated. This should be done by field crews of...

And to follow up...if you had a large site, and you wanted to be ACCURATE to a certain benchmark, RTK might be exactly the tool for the job. The preci...

@dan-steely Getting under 0.05' vertical overall from a benchmark or datum can be difficult, but what I like about total station work is that relativ...

This is why every call to a datum should include physical monuments that you can check to on the ground to verify that you are in fact on the same dat...

Is that using robotics? Is it a pointing error?

@lukenz 5" at 500 feet is 0.01'...the size of the job or the contract or the company doesn't change that. Most instruments do not have the optical re...

@rover83 ?ÿ Some of the main advantages of remote sensing and specifically photo based surveys are speed, safety, and that it obtains data that I do...

@mathteacher Understanding Software is exactly it. And I swear every manufacture has a different jargon and a different expected workflow. ?ÿ ?ÿ

@mark-mayer Pick the software first. 100%

@brad-ott In practice, a name brand 5" instrument will produce the same results as a 1" instrument on any boundary survey up to and including a full ...

@lukenz 5" is more than adequate for most boundaries. We rarely have traverses longer enough to tell the difference between 5" and 1".

If it was just math anyone could do my job.

I am posting this on the wall.

@350rocketmike IF you use Field to Finish, simply code the check point to a different code. Simply putting it in Raw Data is a recipe to have someone...

@mark-mayer 100%

Pins are good. Hire a surveyor. I think your questions warrant an expert opinion from someone with all the facts. If you provided all the facts here, ...

If you do a topo, and the map includes the two stations, and their physical descriptions as well as the bearing or azimuth you assumed between the two...

@leegreen Interesting. They should have station and offsets at least. The dimensions are usually in the details. I suppose every area is different.

BTW, my crews don't seem to care about paper anymore.