@bstrand University of Florida Geomatics ProgramThe Geomatics program is available at three locations in the state of Florida: on the main campus in ...

@oldpacer Is the flapper-sleeve thing a fence post driver?

@jitterboogie That's a deep one! I've never heard of a 30' rod before. You probably meant 30' of rod, right?

Wouldn't that be the standard error? In practice, how often would the rod placement on a pipe invert be exactly 10, 20, or 30 degrees? I think the 0 s...

@vertman Shame on me for missing the twenty degree bubble! All you need to do now is to offer a perpendicular extension to measure pipe inverts in st...

Yes, intermittently. Unfortunately, I missed that question. However, on Jeopardy! the other night there was a surveyor's question concerning the Mason...

@lurker Quite possibly. I forgot to mention the Ylang Ylang tree. Its flowers really do smell like Chanel No. 5. Please visit/p>

Earth Curvature and Refraction ?ÿ

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 ...