I don't know why anyone would do building layout in SPC Maybe because the Architect designed it over a boundary plan done in SPC?

No voicemail at all for me - either I answer or I dont - at least you know if you have got through. seldom answer a call where I dont recognise the n...

Me, I prefer to be working in the same terms as the underlying plan as soon as I can. Rotating and translating afterwards is a P.i.t.A. There are a ...

When i am in Trimble Business Center i see some sdrmap thinking and Terramodel thinking. Yes, TBC is sort of a bastard love-child of the pair of th...

The final compilation was dos based but would run in a dos box inside windows. This is likely why Trimble deep sixed it. That's pretty much it - pl...

In New Zealand the chains were marked in chains and links, not feet. Later ones were metric. Tension was a steady 7lb pull. That did not change depend...

Thanks Gents, appreciate your efforts

@williwaw There's years of experience in that there post of yours

if your are surveying by lat long you are doing it wrong. (Especially in decimal degrees) I beg to disagree. You might very well be doing it by th...

@holy-cow Google Earth show those are interesting breaks in the very regular patterns of development Was that a railway between Mound Valley and Par...

@rover83 You are right. This issue would be better sorted in the office - audit trails and the like. And I question what field technique lapse let it...

@sarkiss At a guess, for some numeric reason, that routine needs an 'Angle only' backsight for orientation, and your job uses 'Angle and distance'. I ...

There are a couple of possibilities here... On the Cogo menu there is an Adjust option Under that you have Fix Station Setup or Transformations amon...

I now operate RTK on my cell phone using a free app and do my averaging and error estimates on a spreadsheet Sounds very cool, A couple of quick q...

@brentonholmes1984gmail-com @lukenz has the right idea I think. If you can't afford that - look for good used / 2nd hand. Maybe a dealer trade-in?

The Focus35 is a mechanical instrument - gears and cogs - its slow and noisy, and it is an old design even compared to a Focus50. There are a couple...

WMS is sort of like offering your maps to anyone that might like looking at them. And seemingly almost always for the public good. "We've made this ...