I've been using an Epson T3470 D-size plotter for 4 years now. after finding that I could no longer buy ink for my HP 450C. At the time I wasn't impr...

the Leica GS18's I mostly use (and everyone other one I looked back that I've used last decade) are mm differences only. It depends on the azimuth ...

I was skeptical about claims that orientation of my Javad Triumph-LS mattered, but then a few years ago I did some calcs using the antcal file. As I ...

It's been 30 years since I did any serious construction staking, but in the 15 or so years prior to that -- through a bunch of large projects, both re...

How old is that avatar pic, anyway? It's pretty old, at least 10 years. Not much dark hair left anymore. 🙁

In my case, it may have helped that the judge and I had spent many hours together in the bleachers watching our sons play baseball. That, and the fac...

The whole time, I'm trying to subtly indicate to the attorney that he needs to ask me I'm not that polite. When an opposing attorney balked at my ...

Unless there's some ambiguity in the map dimensions that require extrinsic evidence to resolve, I'd hold the map monuments and dimensions. It's *pro...

With regard to screenshots: while I don't often need to refer to them, I like the Javad convention of automatically storing a screenshot at the begin...

I still carry a field book, but for the most part all it has is job numbers, dates and a bunch of instrument heights and manhole dips. Occasionally I...

An article in the New York Times (warning: paywall) alludes to this technology that's being developed by the Aussie firm Q-CTRL. They claim 100x imp...