You can enter barometric pressure and temperature in the FC-5000 and send them to the instrument.

Not bad! Please correct any part of my understanding on how this rod works. The rod is calibrated to the cosine of either the ten or thirty degree rod...

@lurker We should start a thread called "Old Survey Phraseology." A college campus is definitely a fun place for any survey activity; if you can keep...

@bill93 We are verifying and supplementing our vertical control network. We are county surveyors and are using our own network. There's an upcoming r...

@spmpls I don't know if the office filed a mark recovery. It sounds like a great idea because we need to preserve the NGS monument network.

@norman-oklahoma Excellent! I look forward to hearing from him.

@john-putnam When shade is an issue, are there any alternatives to setting up on the other side of the road or rotating the level rod to gather more ...

Additional info about Solocator app.

My daughter has an iPhone and made the attached PDF just for you!

I've got an Android phone. If you turn on geotags, or something like that, the lat and lon are stored in the metadata along with the pic. You can extr...

How many judges would accept the validity of electronic data (raw data) over field notes?

I just read about it. I wonder if Leica has solved the problem of shade on a level rod with this new level.

@bill93 Very interesting reading concerning NATRF2022 at/span>

I have no experience using a least squares adjustment (LSA) in any aspect of surveying. I can read about in a textbook, but I don't know how it's used...

Do you have any literature to back up this statement? Who makes the LS15? Were you joking?

@flga-2-2 Have you ever recovered a T-bar? They're shaped like the letter 'T', with a shiner placed in the middle. The only ones I've ever recovered ...

@gary_g No suprise to me at all!