Personally,I still prefer MS DOS and my 8086 but then I'm old school.

I'm not sure why a non-tangent curve is hard to offset. The problem is in laying out the non-tangent curve. I always identify them as non-tangent an...

Raun,I'm guessing that the card is to large. When the 1200s came out 1GB was big and I think Leica sold it with a 2MB card. I use Leica 32MB cards a...

It looks like F50? and G50? were held for vertical but I see nothing to suggest that anything was constrained horizontally(other than possible the azi...

Out West it is required on the plat for any division of land. Be be it 1 or 1,000. But then we record everything out here.

> I dont know, I think the PW question is second to his exempt status. If he truly is exempt , then the PW is not applicable. Not True, even as an ...

Only a piece of paper dated 1996 from Trimble can be worth over $350.

Good Luck Paul,I do a substantial amount of R/w work for BNSF and it is still like pulling teeth to get any info. And when you do, it is in no organi...

Roadhand,Construction staking is nice when you are not the one being held liable. It sounds as though you work for the GC which limits the liability ...

Tom,I'm not sure where you are located, but around here construction staking has become a low ball item. And if you are not a DBE, don't even think a...

Here in the Great State of Oregon, Washington County will except paper bond for records of survey upon approval of the bond you use. They have this c...

I'm not sure were people get that 'Sets of Angles' is for monitoring although you can save sets and re-visit them without re-pointing. What it is rea...

To be honest, every software I use except AutoCAD (and its knockoffs) has this capability. You can change the units at any time in LGO, LisCad, GPSur...

Sets of Angle is the way to go if you don't care about adjusting your traverse on the instrument. You can turn as many angle as you want to as many p...

Microstation has the answer. You can specify secondary units allowing you to see the length of any given line in feet, inches, vars, meters or light ...

No, you are not wrong.I would not give an estimate for an ALTA without having a copy of the title report in hand. I also make it a practice to specif...

Congratulations,I remember it like it was 20 years ago. The first survey I singed was for a four or five mile transmission line re-route. Lot of pag...

Maybe I've become one of the old time surveyors, my wife does keeps pointing out that my hare is getting grey. Hell, we used to tell them that we wer...