There are many good replies to the original post. My Saturday morning philosophy recalls the following:My WageI bargained with Life for a Penny,And L...
The first surveying book I purchased was Davis, Foote, Kelly, 5th Edition – a long time ago. . . . .Then other “standard” surveying textbooks – while ...
This thread/post contains a number of issues worthy of comment. I have posted a letter to the Editor (Marc Cheves) of American Surveyor stating: 1. T...
Sometimes the answer is confusing because we've not asked the right question. . . .How accurately do you need the answer? How much can the radius of ...
My career has included 25 years of teaching surveying at the college level. The ratio of the number of female students divided by the number of male ...
I know the word "important" is not synonymous with "visible" but my observation is that the professional surveyor is the person uniquely qualified to ...
I had a Belkin router and experienced the same problems you describe. I bought a new Western Digital N600 router ($87) about a month ago - so far the...
I am both confused and curious - what theory/algorithms/equations are you quoting with regard to "tilt" in the project?I applaud you for testing your ...
My posting is somewhat belated and others have many good things to say about "localization." My comments are somewhat abstract and more theoretical b...
Well said and point made.But if you are talking about distance on surface of the earth instead of a bearing, 0.01 arc seconds is about 1 foot. True fo...
Well said, but details still matter. BURKORD(TM) is a 3-D COGO package that accepts mark-to-mark distances and performs error propagation. However th...
John and Kent are both spot-on with regard to most points made, but we need to agree that least squares adjustment and error propagation are two diffe...
Dave,I'm sorry the link did not work for you. The pdf file is posted at on my web site.If that does not work, let me know and I'll email the pdf file...
The computational procedure I use is documented at at this web site.The least squares algorithm is item #2 on that web page and actual matrices (with ...
Simple Question for RTK Users/Enthusers - Diagram misleadingAlthough my comment may have no bearing on the point you are making in illustrating your t...