This is great stuff. I have always been very interested in the old triangulation network and baselines. We recovered station BETHEL (PID JU3319) in 19...

The well meaning handicap ramp program destroyed many city monuments in Pittsburgh. Typically there was a cast iron monument box at intersections, wit...

True, there is no adjustment being done to non-redundant measurements. But, my point is that the LSA software is correctly reducing the data. In the o...

If I turn say, 4 sets (1 set=FL+FR) of angles between two points (or 4 sets of directions between multiple points), I use the mean of the 4 sets and t...

Now it seems that I CAN run Carlson Survey on the desktop. So it looks like the license is back on the server. Now that I have a little more time, I w...

That is interesting that Star*Net has the command to allow one to use a suffix. But, I will never understand why people don't call the point the same ...

So if I plan on making large lots, then that would be less people trapped and maybe....

In my municipality they have a regulation that a dead end street (i.e. ending in a cul-de-sac) cannot be longer than 600 feet. This messes me up becau...

I wonder if we are talking about the same ones? We have had one break...it was on a lock wall in a sudden storm, and flew 60' across the lock chamber ...

The one I tried was JUNK. I now only use ones made in Hungary, which are the Trimble tribrachs.

Proprietary formats...I know Trimble isn't the only one, but why do the manufacturers insist on storing data in proprietary formats that they keep as ...

The issues about the antenna HI, point name, etc are separate from this. I do not run any data collector when doing static, but then I put this info i...

In PA, there are two types of navigable waters:1) Navigable in fact..."if, in the natural condition, the body of water can support transportation in t...

In 2001 I had to survey a bunch of column tops on the roof of a large urban mall, they wanted to fabricate steel to place on top of these columns, whi...

I cannot think of anything bad to say about the S6. The one I have is 8 years old and going strong. Only had 1 problem-the dual axis compensator went ...

Yes that is what I use. Very fast to center over a point accurately. Our points are either disks (usually the control) or bolts with punch marks (the ...

To me the latitude and longitude words are not needed. North implies latitude and West implies longitude. I usually use just the letter, i.e. N and W,...