Who would give this guy a gun??????

When I first got out of school oh so many years ago, I worked on a large commercial site adjacent to a BPA transmission line. Just being under these ...

Might Be OK In PA ?> If the sales agent is an employee of the entity that owns the overall tract he may be simply exercising the rights of the owne...

I have been using Leica digital levels since the mid 90's. The 'new' DNA series was a great improvement over the original system. I have DNA03 which...

Andy,I have been providing DTM to our clients with Inroads for years. The simplest thing to do i just export the TIN lines and let them import them a...

Nice top mount. It has been quite a while since crews were that big.

This really chaps me. I just renewed my subscription in February and paid an additional $200 plus to for my raster design seat only to find out now t...

I would agree with respects to boundary surveys but the original question was based on non-boundary types of surveys. I can say for a fact that the B...

Bear Bait,I was not referring to any particular agency. As you mentioned, I do not think that any federal agencies require state licensure but I do b...

Just to clarify my point. My comments only apply to working within the boundaries of the federal land. If you are determining the exterior boundary ...

My experience has been that the Fed does not care what the states say. If you are on federal property and are working for them they hold all of the c...

Well, for the rest of the world that does not work in the rain they may not be worth the extra cost but as for those of us in the beautiful North-Wet ...

If we are talking about books with survey scene then you need to ad Edward Abbey's "The Monkey Wrench Gang". It has been ages since I read it but it ...

Thanks for all of the input. I have done numerous ALTA updates over the years. In fact the two sites in question were updated four years ago, the or...

The prevailing wages in the King County area are based on Union Scale and do not reflect the wages earned in the design/professional services segment ...

In the good old days of TrimVec and TrimNet, you would create an undulation model by holding ellipsoid values and orthometric height values along with...

The need for using either a "modified SPC" or a low distortion projection will exist until engineering software can design in geodetic coordinates. I...

Luke,If you are trying to track daily movement in the cm magnitude then a 2" or 3" gun would be more than enough. 2" second instruments are hard to c...

Good to hear people are still surveying glaciers. I got my start surveying back in the 80's because as a budding young geomorphologist while on the J...