> Is the data you gather with a data collector such as the Trimble TSC2 admissible evidence in court?Just as with field notes, I think it would be ...

I use mining transit books (Teledyne 408, National 408, or Sokkia 8152-20). 6 columns on the left, 8x8 grid on the right.

I don't have experience with your particular situation, but I do have experience with driven rod marks. It seems to me that you can pretty easily pen...

> What's with the, "no record"? Is that a problem?> > What's wrong with just showing them as found, and noting the LS number?Knowing when an...

Curiosity was satisfied today when the mailman brought me a pair of trail guides, one for Mt. Whitney and one for the John Muir Trail ("JMT" to those ...

> Trimble bought SECO not too long ago.I didn't know that. It's an unfortunate development, given overall Trimble business practices, but I guess ...

If You Have To File A Record On The Exterior...> If they aren't very good, it would be a disservice not to remove them and substitute substantial, ...

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> The monuments that will never be of record need to be removed.They'll be of record as soon as Radar files his map.

Around here new construction in a flood zone requires 3 Elevation Certificates: pre-construction, pre-pour (forms in place, but no concrete yet), and...

I think I'd probably leave them, and note "found [whatever] tagged [other LS number], no record." He's beyond the reach of the Board at this point, s...

> But, if that's not the way you want to do it, try changing the extension from whatever it is to a .txt extension like was said above and you can ...

I don't do much construction staking anymore, but my experience is that paper plans have become an adjunct to the digital versions, despite claims to ...

No experience with it. However, there have been times that I'd have liked to mount my total station on it, set it up on a mainline track, and then wa...

Good question Jim> The WAVE processor in GPSurvey and TGO certainly supported the “elevation angle” data, and you could chose Trimble's version, or...

> In GPS reduction software, the tables are linearly interpolated to obtain the small PCV corrections.It's never been clear to me whether anything ...

Mighty> These quantities are typically a few arc seconds, but can reach an arc minute of departure. That sounds more like it. A minute in 2 meters...

> it is pretty unlikely that this “error” would be more than a millimeter in the horizontal (or maybe 2mm in VERY extreme cases)2 mm in a 2 m setu...

> Personally, I let Carlson draw the lines with as little smoothing as possible, then draw my own the way the ground really looks and delete the ma...