A movie with no significant shots about surveying, but one scene worth mentioning is Raiders of the Lost Ark: Marion And Excavations (1981)2:06 wher...

That must be tough to deal with from a communication standpoint. I was unaware that Hilti made total stations. In a perfect world, your site surveyors...

@flga-2-2 Housing construction is certainly taking off out here in Rocket City!

@jp7191 I agree with your train of thought on this. It's as bad as watching an instrument man doubling angles and watching the numbers on the total s...

@holy-cow Wouldn't common sense tell you to split it between the two tracts?

I miss doing jobs like staking out new retention pond slopes because the existing ones were too steep. They told me people were afraid that their youn...

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@holy-cow So, on a smaller scale, you northern surveyors must experience this monument shifting annually due to frost heaving.

@bill93 When I was using a Topcon instrument-mounted (on a Wild T16) EDM back in 1988, I had to dial a knob until a string of flashing red lights bec...

@allen-wrench I don't think any of the offices I've ever worked at had me edit the legends for different drawings. As you know, some legends are very...

Thanks to all for answering my questions! Sometimes people ask you questions and you think, "Um, I never really thought about that." Then you feel emb...

@jitterboogie I did consider the software aspect of number one. I was thinking about the old days when I used EDMs mounted on theodolites. No data co...