MaleEuropean, Scotch with a little Tennessee Cherokee sprinkled in51 years total39 years registerd in Texas70 and still working in the field every day...

Sounds too simple for the question.

Exactly what do you mean,"set a backsight"????

A static point about every mile to check into with RTK is what I would do. The original control point of the other guy where probably sloppy RTK work.

Oh yea, the SECO girls. 1985 I believe.

Nothing wrong with that at all. I have done it many times. In some cases that is the only way it can be done without a big problem.

No better than the old USGS Quad maps for accuracy, in my opinion.

When two hole were found on a USGS Horizonal mon., I figured that after an adjustment it was easier to adjust the center point hole than to adjust the...

Amen on that. No better than tax maps. Just put on he map by a cad monkey where they look like they might be.

Pickled olives bottle. I would date that as 1960+- ten years.

Laws must be different in Ohio.

"Being a circular figure having a radius of XXX, the centroid being located South XXX and West XXX feet from the Northeast corner of Lot bla-bla, then...

I feel your pain.Around here hardly any rural state roads were monumented.I try to use the center of paving. Then I check that against the fences, whi...

I think its telling you to ,"go high enough and you wiil find it". NAVD 88!!

Coordinate useage has been around a long time before total stations, EDM's and GPS.

Mine is obsolete when I say it's obsolete.

questionSince the advent of RTK, the surveyor in charge feels that his crew only needs to know how to push a button over a spot on the ground.

yesAbsolutely. Its more procedures that equipment, anyway.

AtlasDias and Dias. Very reasonable.

I wonder how many drone owner/operators are really "peeping toms".