I highly recommend a look at a sneak preview of what the Oregon DOT is doing:Oregon Coordinate System proposalBased upon the excellent work of Michael...

Trimble Style SheetsThank you for the kind words Tom.Style Sheets seem to be a hidden treasure with Survey Controller and Access. For those that what ...

Loyal is quite right... all coordinates are stored internally as ECEF. Survey Controller allows the user to configure how the coordinates are display...

Some questions...Were all of the BMs picked up as RTK rover points? Was the GPS base station point included in the level run?Is a geoid model being us...

Truly AwesomeSorry boys... it is video from a Gatorade commercial... not a real catch.Ball girl catch - Snopes

I am running Camtasia Studio from Techsmith.com and quite like it. It is a reasonably priced AV tool for screen recording. Techsmith also produces a...

It has been a while but I recall that you can open a project file from an older version of TGO directly in the newer version. The message 'needs updat...

Andy provides valuable advice...when troubleshooting survey data the simplest issues tend to cause the most problems. They are also the easiest to che...

I've used RTK GPS and total stations on the same project many times using a user defined localization (or calibration as Trimble calls it). It works ...

UltraCompareI highly recommend UltraCompare by IDM Software, developer of my favourite text editor, UltraEdit.Reasonably priced and efficient, it will...

This reminds me of a discussion I had with a rural landowner a couple of decades ago while I was surveying an oil well site on a nearby property on be...

I agree LoyalWhatever happened to "original monuments in the original location govern" with respect to property boundaries?While we can give some weig...

If we only worked when there was no snow on the ground...we'd have a lot of time off every year. Although that thought has a definite appeal in my mi...

I've heard very good things about the NuShield screen protectors from a number of my professional colleagues. They are available for a wide variety of...

Hi ChrisThe only documentation I've been working with to date for style sheets is the stuff on the Trimble support site:Style Sheet DocumentationI've ...

Hi ChrisI played around with the creation of custom queries and exports from TGO by manipulating the MDB schema a number of years ago. It worked - so...

TSC2 ( Trimble Data Collector ) Touch screenSometimes the simplest solution is the correct one: "[Fn] + Trimble Key" enables/disables the touchscreen...

Hi DaveThe Corpscon Ver 6 web site has a link at the top of the page "Instructions for Windows 7".It jumps to the following information:Windows 7 user...

Beer Legs jogged another memory... prior to loading a DXF on the data collector, I stripped it down to the bare minimum of entities needed - just the ...

David brings up a good point. The resolution of the imagery probably won't help much at the scale you will normally be working at in the field given ...