Have you ever considered using phind? I find it to be a useful search engine alternative as it links its answers to its sources. If the answer is tota...

The app works pretty good. A few comments on it: 1. We use it as a crew site picture supplement/replacement. While we do not pull precise measuremen...

I will also attempt to keep this apolitical. Many of us look to NGS for leadership, knowledge, and wisdom in many geodetic matters. Many of us were/ar...

We do not provide animations; however, we will often upload smaller sites/structures as an FBX to the Autodesk Viewer as it is free for 1 month and th...

Side note--you can get much better than "+/- a few feet" using GNSS with offsets. Using SurvCE we do either of the following: P.306 shows a coupl...

RIP. He was always extremely helpful and polite. I still use his software to this day.

Distance and offset when using a GNSS or total station. Site plans and tree inventory plans in many places in SW Ontario require coniferous/deciduous ...

The Civil3d Traverse Editor is pretty decent for calcs. Off the top of my head, I think you can set it to place cogo points only (ie. I believe the o...

Agreed. That's just the time for a scan with an iPhone. Please note we only scan for documentation purposes and they are not used as the primary measu...

Example of one we scanned with an iPhone 14 Pro using 3dscan. Please note: -FBX as this was meant as a check on the disto dips and for visual confirm...

Well, we do not do ALL of those checks. We would typically do the following: -run the base on site (most of our jobs also have a vertical component) -...

It seems my other comment got lost in the intarwebz. For Chris-Bouffard: I do not think anybody here will fault you for "trust, but verify" checkin...

What's the required precision? Dot3d with Apriltags and a disto as a check is pretty economical. If it is precise enough depends on the project spec...

If you want an American DJI drone, take a look at these guys: For a first drone, I would go with the cheapest you could get by with. Or have a chea...

WebODM is the cheapest, easiest way to try. Aerotas, last I read, uses Global Mapper Pro for their feature extraction. Civil3d can be used if you al...

You can use OpenDroneMap to do terrestrial mapping: The Lightning version is available if you do not want to learn the desktop or server versions. ...

Pricey, but my version of Adobe Acrobat 9 allows you to save a PDF to TIFF just from the File->Save As menu.

Any time I have a resection blank screen (which is very rare), I hit back, hit calculate again, and then it's good. I would not expect any help on Su...

We use a couple of remote drafters. However, they are all within 1hr of the office, they all worked for local OLS shops prior, and we are very famili...

I use this routine all the time and I never thought to use it with the Copy to Clipboard option like this. Handy little tip!