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Classic angle-only resection required angles greater than 30 degrees and less than 150 degrees. Usually used to expand a base net from one tightly-cha...
I started an AAS in Survey Engineering at 34 or 36 and now a license and a half later I'm still at it. Like you, wish I'd known at 18.One thing that g...
A section corner originally set as a post or a stone,the "point" being the size of the top of the monument,hopefully good to one link,somehow gains an...
call up Mark Silver at iGage and get a single X90-OPUS unit for less than $2k. Best survey purchase ever.Two or more and you could be taking naps inst...
Many thoughts ... pasting for you here a link to the summary report of a very recent surveyor's forum:
Y'all sure it was the true point and not the original corner?
Jobo would have put his hat on the fence post and made sure the plumb bob string over the "true corner" was at least close to brushing the brim. A bou...
5000 angles at one setup doesn't help. 5000 cross-tied measurements in a least squares network where everything has some redundancy won't make the ind...
adding to Bill93's post, my favorite surveying equation: sigma over square root of n, where sigma is the std. deviation of your measurement method, be...
rfc, post: 365256, member: 8882 wrote: Starnet has some inline codes, ".bearing grid" or ".bearing measured", along with ".distance grid" or ".dista...
The underlying problem is CAD. CAD deals with a flat Earth. GIS deals with geodetics and mapping projections. We really ought not use CAD for anything...
:good: :good: :good: Nowadays (after 1871 for some and after 1933 for everyone else) title insurance mostly replaces the need for a survey, unless the...
Washington State:8 years experience only, or up to 4 years education for a Bachelors in Surveying (or Geomatics).Degrees not required. There is an AAS...
You can import DXF files.You can import DEMs.You can use the GRASS plugins to make pretty slope aspect maps.You can mix and match different SHP files ...
Your magic black box is doing some of the least squares for you. Maybe you knew that. But only as a prediction and not a posteriori (after the fact) t...
unitlessif you are in a US survey foot state, check every drawing anyone ever gives you to make sure this is unitless.
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The refresher classes through North Puget Sound and South Puget Sound LSAW were a big help. Those start in January, weekly, well worth trucking west f...
It's true that compass work lines are more independent of each other than transit lines/traverses. Still, from such an analysis you learn things like ...