I think maybe I got it this time after forcing a page reload. The address showed up on the map, and it passed the validation. It's not showing up in...

Closer, but still not there. The third-party embed box went away, but the map wasn't able to find my address, even when I limited it to city and stat...

"Location Map value is required" error prevented me from completing a listing. I wasn't able to get past the Google Maps third-party embed box, even ...

Most still work, though time has proven to be the bullet that takes them down. Of the dozen or so that I've had, at least 4 have succumbed to (I thin...

Converting Spectra Precision Survey Pro v 5.0 raw data to STAR*NET format

But are *.sst files the same as *.ssf files?

I wouldn't call it "inexpensive" -- I paid $900 for mine in 1993. It was a workhorse, back in the days when I still ran levels. A lot of cool old d...

Lifted directly from ChatGPT (so consider the source): A magnetic polarity reversal would: Likely unfold over thousands of years. Cause ...

Don't forget that the firmware for this receiver can be upgraded to fix the 2019 WNRO problem, thanks to the outstanding talents of Keelan Lightfoot. ...

I peeked into one of the old .sst files I have, and among the binary characters are ASCII references to the vector DAT files, the WAVE version, the st...

Interesting project! I did a tiny bit of work below sea level in the late '70s for a sewer line (108", as I recall) bore under Interstate 5 in the S...

Yes, I'm resecting 1-man (I do everything 1-man). But I let the DC and the instrument handle all the pointing, so the flop glitch is happening somewh...

Delving into the raw data I see what happened, though I don't know why: when I shot 15 during the resection, the DC recorded the direct reading as re...

Maybe the MS60 has more power than my GeoMax, but on a 100°F day the GMP101 gets lost in the shimmer at half a mile, while the GPR1 will still return ...

I don't know if your agency is cost-sensitive, but I have a genuine Leica GRZ4 that I'd let go for less than that difference. I got it in like-new co...

Right now I believe he's recovering from heart surgery. He's somewhat active on Facebook.

In my part of the world, that PLS 100 years in the future will find that my plat coordinates are about 6 feet off.

Back in *my* early days we used to set up on the centerline of a railroad track and use the miles-long tangent for meridian. I always hated standing ...