As one might guess, the results of the smaller network are slightly tighter since the angles are contributing very little to the errors. (The one exc...

Maybe I'm missing something, but this seems like overkill. As a test, I set up a dummy network -- a square 1,000' on a side with an instrument point ...

John's links work on my system using Chrome, so I don't think it's a browser problem.

I guess I don't understand the question. If you can see all corners from one setup, why not just BS the first (always D/R), FS the second, BS the sec...

I use the same rod for both TS and RTK: a Seco carbon-fiber unit with a standard screw-based friction lock.

Slightly used? It looks like it was used to chop line.

The one time this happened to me it was a $5k job. I sued in Small Claims Court and won, but the client was judgment proof. (The judge erred in barr...

Offer to provide the CAD files for a fee. $15k ought to do it.

Won't the current owner's name appear on the deed? I always pull the adjoiner deeds anyway to make sure there aren't any inconsistencies that need to...

Sorry to hear. I had a few nice exchanges with Jerry after I posted about watching U2 touch-and-goes at Beale AFB.

I don't know if this is relevant to the discussion or not, but I recall reading something years ago about how the aging of some total station componen...

The Parani system is a serial cable replacement -- a pair of them *should* look like a serial cable to both the S6 and the TSC3, unless Trimble has fi...

The 0825stn.dat file appears to be a properly-formatted Star*Net vector file. I don't think the fact that it has a .dat extension instead of .gps is ...

Star*Net typically wants GNSS vectors in its own *.gps format. If your GeoMax software is creating a Star*Net *.dat file, it may be exporting only co...

I think he means that after you've shot your monument, use the monument as the backsight point and then tie into another control point (in many cases,...

You're a better man than I. I do a lot of topo, and it's a rare day that I don't botch an HI or an HR or a description or a check point number (often...

I use this feature a lot to convert grid coordinates to ground coordinates with the orientation (basis of bearings) of a filed map. I only wish it al...

For many decades Sacramento County, CA (which has thousands of filed subdivision maps) required only radius, chord bearing and chord distance to defin...