I kept dropping an orange painted Pentel 0.5mm mechanical pencil in 1988 during a 50-mile route survey in Iowa. Since we had to first prelim the rout...

RTK has its own little idiosyncrasies in the clear without purposely trying to force a position in tree cover. I would like to think it is ignorance,...

Patented October 14, 1958.

At first I glance at the monument, I thought Travis Hays might be a Texas surveyor. 🙂

I have had to call a couple of fence posts the section corner because the monument was pulled out and a substantial post was put in its place by the f...

Dave Ingram and I authored a story about the American theodolite. The story about how the graduation lines on a glass circles were etched is truly am...

Reminds me of "Plumb Barbara".

Sample of gas station maps. Many of these were produced yearly into the 1980's, so one could build quite a collection from each particular station ye...

RADAR, post: 364172, member: 413 wrote: I've got a couple hundred maps; but nothing as organized as yours....:-$If I see maps at a flea market or gara...

U. S. Board of Surveys or typo which might have been USGS?

Victor.Plymouth, post: 363707, member: 11292 wrote: Very striking photographs.Could you add some explanations; what survey marks are you seeing and wh...

paden cash, post: 363644, member: 20 wrote: I just checked and the Hilton at Mahaska, KS is already full. 😉 I believe that Mahaska usually sends t...