JohnI was lucky to have been given the opportunity in 2005 to redesign all of the monitoring schemes. Same points, but the old methods were obsolete. ...

JohnThere are 39 dams in the Pittsburgh District that I do deformation surveys on, some yearly, some every other year. So, I will spell out very brief...

JohnI've been called that...and much worse!Actually, doing some dam(ned) surveying today. We did a dewatering surveying of a navigation lock two weeks...

JohnDid you only have one receiver? I do GPS on points across dams all the time for monitoring, but we network them all together to get the best local...

Not sure why price is such an issue to many users. If you figure out how much it is used, how much it will save you (in most cases one person less), t...

piersThat is the way a baseline SHOULD be built, with piers. None of the ones in PA (nor any others that I know about, use piers (pedestals). Other co...

I would like to highly recommend Mr Burkholder's book to anyone interested in this subject. A great reference and very enlightening.Marrakesh John

I have a windows 7 64 bit computer that I bought last year that I STILL have not transitioned to using all the time. But, it does work just fine with ...

I use total commander (file manager) on my office computer. That is one of those absolutely essential utilities that are a must have.They have a versi...

Thanks, Glenn. It would be nice if Trimble (and the others) understood the value of the raw data and created some foolproof method to save it, or to h...

Totally agree, Loyal (but then again, it seems you are I almost always do agree, at least on technical issues). There were very large projects done ar...