I keep a box of Milk Bone behind the driver's seat. They've come in handy on occasion.

With few exceptions, I have two kinds of clients: the ones who require the use of their own contracts (typically large corporations or public agencie...

Usually I can click on those YouTube links and they'll load, but this one doesn't do anything when I click on it. 🙁

In TBC: Support|eLearning (or similar -- might be a different title depending on your TBC version; mine is old). Register for the Trimble Learn site...

I did worse than that: almost 4 years after starting my own firm I filed a Record of Survey that showed all the set monuments as being marked with my...

I uploaded a copy to my webspace: Leica LGS Height Reference Guide

Adding 0.03' per 100' sounds about right for that temperature.

With regard to manufacturing, my sense is that the U.S. has largely changed over the metric in order to remain competitive globally. But there's esse...

While I believe there's a solid correlation between sun exposure and melanoma, I'm not sure there's a particularly strong connection between the locat...

A lot depends on how you write your contract and how savvy your client is. If you make it clear that you'll deliver 1 ALTA survey based on a specific...

Agreed, because stats isn't my strong suit. But for a project last year I had to learn how to convert correlations and standard deviations to a covar...

It's been years since I compared premiums, but last time I did they were in same ballpark. One thing to note about insurance companies: in general,...

  Variance-covariance matrix

I've been using ARM as my broker for many years now, both for general liability, inland marine, and professional liability. The first two are covere...

From the Star*Net v6 manual: "STAR*NET is designed for typical survey grid projects in relatively small areasspanning up to a few hundred kilometers...

I would call those "permitted encroachments." But since I generally don't have access to every permit associated with a parcel, I just label them "en...

If a man-made object crosses a property line, it's an encroachment. Who is encroaching on whom? That's a question for someone else to answer.

Yeah, I should have qualified my statement to the vectors I have experience with. I get timestamps with imports from TBC (*.asc), and my Javad TLS wr...

When Star*Net imports a vector file it includes the timestamp, so identifying duplicates is possible with a bit of simple coding.