I never remove them, I just move them a foot or two. And switch the stakes that have the point number written on them. If I see them using GPS I bury ...

The RTK bridge is not at all cheap. But, you can run multiple (unlimited) rovers.

I use a folding rule, graduated in meters (millimeters) and ft (hundredths). These are made of wood and are pretty rigid. I also use a pocket tape gra...

You do not need a known distance to determine the prism offset (actually combined instrument and prism, but typically called the prism offset, as the ...

The Trimble S6 has a height notch, and when you enter it into the setup screen it converts to true vertical. I feel this gives an HI accuracy of 0.001...

No. What is stored (at least with Trimble) are vectors. If you use the VRS style on the data collector, it stores the data as vectors from the nearest...

why would the traverse and GPS static and OPUS solutions for the same point have different point designations? (see my post further down)

I don't use point numbers, I use point designations (alpha-numeric). For example, EOP01, EOP02, etc. GPS points always have designations like 14013AA,...

Trivial?Thanks, Adam. Sorry about not remembering. I admit I am terrible with names (but pretty good remembering faces).

Trivial?Yea, more receivers are sometimes a "bad" thing. To me it is more important to have double occupations rather than lots of lines. And having m...

Trivial?I have processed a few baselines in my 28 years using GPS (many tens of thousands actually). I have used trimvec, trimmbp, gpsurvey, tgo, tbc,...

There would never be a well on the property. What is happening around here is that they drill from a pad vertically down about 5000', and then start h...

Interesting article: Oil and Gas rights in PAOne major difference between Pennsylvania and other states is the Dunham Rule, which states oil and gas r...

I have followed it back to the original patent. Only one deed mentions (specifically) the Pittsburgh Coal Seam. Which would lead me to believe that I ...

Sounds like the lake isn't very deep. Take some manual shots with a rod to verify that your soundings are accurate (to whatever accuracy standard you ...

Good offer...I hope someone takes you up on it. We did our obs last Friday at locks on the Mon.