and I have only collimated once in two weeks working. By measuring both faces when observing control, I check my collimation every day. And adjus...

I thought the order of importance was temperature first, absolute air pressure (not the weatherman's pressure) second, and humidity only if going for ...

> But how do you align and set a total station (i.e. old Leica TCRA1103 Plus) to True North? Assuming by 'True North' you mean Astronomic not Magn...

I liked the way that one of our wooden boundary pegs I found was nailed completely above ground to the fencepost that replaced it

@oldpacer - we would call it still the original monumentation. But we have the concept of 'disturbed' - as in 'not in the original relationship with ...

needed to add the connection as XYZ Tiles, not as WMTS. I wonder what the difference is. I too have not been able to make it work as WMTS, both in...

@wendell Much faster for the site to load down here. Uploading posts and edits seems about the same. Thanks for your efforts

Well done that man!

I've been doing some digging. There is an official Trimble support note re bluetooth and TSC7and older receivers It suggests that R8-2 bluetooth may...

@taylor81 Bluetooth should just work - but there have been subtle version changes over the years so it is not absolutely 100% guaranteed - if it doe...

@taylor81 Yes, they should pair together quite happily. You will probably need to configure the receiver options to match your corrections source(s)....

Some very quick hints: Your version of Access is way old - some answers you get may not apply to you. Calculating elevation is optional a resection ...

What brand gear do you run? - you may already have what you want The Trimble controllers can do what you ask just with their internal gps (to maybe 3...

@norman-oklahoma Common practice down here, especially getting toward finished grade. Makes sense to me, it is more precise. Sometimes you see both in...

Only QC and tweak it The QC is absolutely vital. We have all seen bad engineer's plans - yes? Well that BIM datafile is just the same Only worse...

Machine Control, which has taken over so much of grading work, relies on RTK You can do machine control with conventional instruments too...

I never learned IBM code, having only used it by submitting Fortran card decks, but at one time could program DEC PDP-11 in octal machine language and...