As others have indicated, FEMA isn't in the floodplain modeling business, it's in the business of risk and political expectation management.?ÿ (Floodp...

I use OPUS -- mostly in the form of OPUS Projects, but sometimes just OPUS itself -- whenever I want a survey tied to the NSRS in an easily-documented...

What's a d.h.?

I hate toolbars, they clutter up my work area.?ÿ I do almost everything from the command line.?ÿ My CAD window generally looks like this: ?ÿ

Early in my robot days I took over 60 shots to the backsight before realizing what was going on.?ÿ I'd probably be doing that still if I hadn't change...

With regard to value, as has been mentioned the price is attractive as long as nothing breaks.?ÿ If one of the internal boards go bad -- and they do -...

I now use a Geomax Zoom80R, which is the near-equivalent to a 1202.?ÿ It might be just a tad faster than my TCRA1102plus, but in my opinion the chief ...

That works great most of the time, but it also means that mistakes tend to get carried forward silently, often for decades, until someone has reason t...

Sometimes there's a difference between what a title company is willing to insure and what the property boundaries are.?ÿ I have a project going right ...

For a one-off project with a large number of points to nail down, I agree.?ÿ On the other hand, if you have occasional need for a few triangulated poi...

Ontario, CA ain't anywhere near Kingston.

I'm certainly concerned about liability; that's the reason I carry insurance.?ÿ I just don't believe that elaborate disclaimers and releases like the ...

That's the antenna that I use at the DC.?ÿ Most of the time I keep it tucked between the DC and the pole so it doesn't catch on anything.?ÿ If I start...

I figure that it's better not to have any written agreement about the use of digital files.?ÿ If something goes wrong and there's a written agreement,...

Here's one I took of a couple of steeplejacks installing a radio antenna.?ÿ I have the gun turned to the design alignment angle for the FCC certificat...

I'm the same way.?ÿ I currently have 6 jobs waiting on me to get the drafting done.

Not sure what you mean by this, but my understanding is that bluetooth is vertically polarized and so you want both antennas vertical in order to maxi...

You have to get the lens aligned just right -- alignment is pretty finicky -- but it's certainly doable, and you can get some interesting shots.

I have a hazy memory about one going from horizon=0 to zenith=90, and the other going from zenith=0 to horizon=90.?ÿ But I long ago gave up trying to ...