You can not reliably resect off of two points with any level of confidence.?ÿ Don't get me wrong, Resections have their place it is just not the first...

Gene, Message me and I can give you a link to a copy of the EXE I received from Leica.?ÿ I also have created a GEM file covering the western US.?ÿ I ...

There is now way to improve precision by adding additional points to a baseline and turning it into a traverse or network.?ÿ As for the monument ties,...

@protracted?ÿ Bonus field trip points if you visits Powell's Books which is literally just down the road.?ÿ

Several decades ago I had a couple of co-workers get hitched at the Willamette Stone.?ÿ Seemed appropriate since they are both surveyors.?ÿ The park w...

@mightymoe?ÿ That was me on Thursday, with the exception the that rod with bipod was on the ground and I was standing precariously on my tippy toes o...

@robertusa?ÿ I'm a Leica shop. My only recent experience with trying to configure Trimble radios was on a remote jobsite with daytime contact to the ...

Had a field tech years ago that wrote 'silk fence instead of 'silt'.?ÿ The contractor, and everyone else, started calling him Silky until he left the ...

@rj-schneider It is ludicrous that you need to take a trimble receiver in to the dealer to add frequencies.?ÿ

Radios are the Achille's heel of RTK in populated areas.?ÿ Years ago I switched for UHF to spread spectrum for RTK.?ÿ That option was eliminated with ...

How is not using the original GLO distances in proportioning any easier than using the same data from a newer survey?

@mattsib79?ÿ I do that with QGIS.?ÿ I'll have to check out Global Mapper.

Not the cheapest solution but I think Leica makes a 4G version of the GFU.

Civil 3D will create surfaces for LiDAR.?ÿ It can import GeoTiFFs, DEMs and LAS files.?ÿ Just be careful, the resulting surface for a quad is big.

@bill93?ÿ I too was one of the lucky ones.?ÿ So much so that I think over the years, numerous of my colleagues almost resented how I did not even loo...

I would love to convert to lithium iron but shipping them is nearly impossible.?ÿ While the lithium iron batteries do not have the same risk of random...

Using the accessories is not a problem, that is what they are there for.?ÿ I would recommend using an instrument to tie them vs RTK given the short di...

When I want to set a bogus monument I just use someone else's cap.?ÿ That is why I have a couple of Shelby's old caps rolling around my truck. ?ÿ

@holy-cow?ÿ It always chaps me when someone uses a property tag on their control points.?ÿ If it is control and it is tagged, it should say control o...