?? SurvCE *is* Carlson.

In my county it's only the older scans (prior to 2000 or so) that are of poor quality.?ÿ The more recent stuff is legible.While I may be mistaken, I g...

A bit off-topic, but this reminds me of the time when Ashtech came out with a kinematic firmware upgrade for the PM-2.?ÿ I decided that the additional...

CourthouseDirect quit working with Firefox some months ago, but it does work with Chrome, at least on my desktop system.?ÿ However, before I figured o...

@norman-oklahoma Busted!

I wonder how hard it would be to strip out the proprietary conversion code.?ÿ I would think that most teqc users could manage with RINEX alone, since ...

See the IGS Access to Products page for a list of ftp servers hosting the orbit files.

@oldpacer It would depend somewhat on dealer location - if I had a Leica dealer close by I *might* lean toward the NOS TS12.  But I don't have e...

They can still turn angles, but a theodolite just doesn't have any value in a production surveying environment these days.?ÿ They're great for casuall...

If you can measure tilt angle (liquid surface or other sensor?) and antenna azimuth (compass or MEMS gyro or ?), you can combine those with rod height...

I stand corrected.?ÿ I certainly removed the plate to saw it off, and I find it hard to believe that I was so inobservant as not to see the step in th...

@party-chef I do, but removing the plate changes the offset, and I want all my minis to have the same 17.5mm offset.

I'm a big fan of the Leica GMP101.?ÿ Small, light, accurate and I routinely get over 1,000' robotically.?ÿ On the one I use the most I cut off the por...

I was in a meeting yesterday in which our NGS advisor said that the 40 states that still have the survey foot on the books have all committed to makin...

This discussion will be moot in a few years, as the Feds intend to deprecate the U.S. Survey Foot at the end of 2022.?ÿ After that all official U.S. m...

If you like Leica you'll love GeoMax, especially when it's time to write the check.

That works great when you have a handful of turns and a few marks to deal with.?ÿ Try it with tens of km of leveling and dozens of marks and the error...