Jim is this NEDO tripod the only fixed leg tripod you have? Just wondering if you bought it to try it out.How did your loops close?If you need a fixed...
Hardly useless information. I gave a numerical example on another site years back and some geodetic programs would not solve for the shortestdistance...
Field Dog, post: 388821, member: 9186 wrote: I'm trying to remember how to adjust a three-wire level run. Is it distance to a turning point from the b...
I know a real good surveyor in California that would hire college students to watch his GPS equipment so something like this would not happen.Could yo...
MathTeacher I hope you can find the missing paper (I know how that is). Since you like stuff like that look at " Manual of Geodetic Triangulation",Spe...
Loyal that must be it. But I guess we will hear from MathTeacher soon to verify that fact.Andrew T. Young can't be all bad; his #32 reference is Geode...
MathTeacher Your first link does not work ( the one at sdsu); can you fix it?JOHN NOLTON
Larry Scott said: "I still haven't come across a surveyor that using the verb taping, even when pulling a tape, which most still call a chain".Well La...
Scott Zelenak, post: 385649, member: 327 wrote: I recently followed the route of New York City Primary Traverse line from 1917 and was able to recover...
Jp7191, post: 385235, member: 1617 wrote: Lets go double or nothing! I bet you survey out of a Volvo station wagon :)Jp7191 I got a good laugh abou...
2xcntr, post: 385206, member: 584 wrote: I have a like new HP3800 sitting in the basement. Still works. It came with the battery box which was how you...
Jp7191, post: 384626, member: 1617 wrote: I bet you were a geodetic engineer too!Naw, its not a local thing! Some things should not change, and yelli...
FL/GA PLS., post: 385070, member: 379 wrote: I "cut my teeth" on these wonders of technology in 1971HP 3800 Wild T-2 :cool:FL/GA PLS The picture y...
not my real name: you asked several questions;1. "Was there electronic distance measurement (EDM) devices in 1974". answer: YES2. "Any idea on w...
I would like to add a cute story to this post that Bow Tie started.A female surveyor friend told me this; when she started surveying (~1985) the party...
paden cash, post: 384458, member: 20 wrote: Don't get picky on us. We all used 100' steel tapes. The affectionate term "chain" just seems to have stuc...
Bow Tie Surveyor, post: 384422, member: 6939 wrote: I started surveying in the age of the EDM and I have never seen what old school chaining looked li...
FrancisH, post: 382711, member: 10211 wrote: Not sure if this applies to your neck of the woods, but here in Singapore, both sides of the road are occ...
FrancisH, post: 382580, member: 10211 wrote: Long Road Engineering Surveys. +/- 5" at each traverse would add up over the entire length. but that was ...
