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Right/left leaves no ambiguity as long as the chord bearing is given.
I've never tried a USB variant, but I've been using a Parani SD1000 (RS232 9-pin serial) adapter with a 5dBi antenna for about 15 years now. With my ...
They help, they just don't help very much. Count me among those who hate concavity descriptions, because it means I have to draw mental (and someti...
That is, if you report anything. I think I can count on one hand the number of times I've been asked to report error statistics. I suppose it all de...
I always use a single RW5 for a given job, downloading it daily upon return to the office. Where I run into the multiple point number thing is when I...
On second thought, Alias won't address the duplication problem I encounter most often: combining data from one project with numeric point names (e.g....
Although I had to upgrade from Star*Net v6 to v11 some years ago due to a hardware key failure, I never bothered to see what features had been added s...
If you maintained the same point numbering system (i.e. didn't use the same point number for more than one physical point), then you can just add the ...
The upper part of the inscription appears to have been broken off. Below the upper part might be a heart, and below that "1800" or similar. (I also...
More information is better, so when it makes sense to put a survey on the grid, I do it. But most of my urban/suburban jobs are done with a total sta...
California, which knows a thing or two about earthquakes and property lines, has a statute -- the Cullen Earthquake Act (Code of Civil Procedure § 751...
From §66424 of the Government Code: “Subdivision” means the division, by any subdivider, of any unit or units of improved or unimproved land, ...
The BP markers from Berntsen are much quicker to install and are very durable. I mostly use them for marking boundary corners, but occasionally set o...
Never mind, both are working now.
The ROS in question -- filed in 2008 -- shows 5 monuments set on the ROW in the vicinity of my project. So far I've not been able to find a single on...
I tried to bluebook a large project (60-ish stations) last year using OPUS Projects with RTN and PP vectors and following the NGS-92 protocols, but ke...
Been doing this for over 30 years, mostly for cleaning my hands after a particularly dirty round of monument searching. I also keep a container of bl...
I gave it another go, but it's not showing up in the listings, at least on my system. I haven't tried deleting the cache or cookies, though.