> I went out to McClellan Park (and a bunch of other crazy surveyors)I was one of them. Woke up at 2:30 for unknown reasons, couldn't get back to ...

> the Trimble 5603 is a wide body instrument, I need to check the actual width, was using 5.50' and a offset of 0.60'.The Geodimeter 600 series, wh...

I don't do Taxes and my CPA does not SurveyI'm working on mine right now. I've been using TurboTax for more years than I can remember, and it makes t...

> How long to you occupy a control point when establishing new coordinates in an RTK session?Control for what? Control for topo of park open space...

> The firm they contacted wanted FOUR times what I would chargeSo next time tell them you'll do the job for twice your normal fee and meet the MBE ...

It looks like a temporary bench mark, as might be used when transferring the elevation from a mark to be reset. There may not have any published data...

> Do you have to prove the "corner" in question is an actual property corner monument or do corner records also get prepared for junk just because ...

> it REVISES some of the 1-100 (probably due to rounding) somehow.Way back when (1989 or so) TDS rounded coordinates to 4 decimal places in the dat...

> Wasn't Ian the one hit by a truck on the sidewalk?I don't believe there was a sidewalk involved -- it was a rural road intersection, as I recall....

> When was the last time you were, Jim. It's changed some since PJ no longer owns it. It's mostly Cisco food but the ambience is definitely small t...

> I live in GrovelandHome of PJ's, my preferred lunch spot on the way to and from Tuolumne Meadows every summer. It ain't elegant, but for some re...

Too bad they picked one of the ugliest receivers Trimble made. The display would have been much more elegant with a tripod-mounted Compact L1/L2 cabl...

If only I could find a command to mark my bills paid, then I could use my income for fun stuff. Offhand, though, the closest command that comes to mi...

I collect at 10° and start processing at 15°. These days I rarely have to futz with the mask.

> I guess I can understand being stubborn just for the sake of it when a map checker asks for something that is specifically not required by state ...