John,Were you working for Micheal Baker at that time. I did all of the crossings from Cut Bank, MT west.

leegreen, post: 410051, member: 2332 wrote: Simple approach is swapping the north coordinates with the elevation coordinates. Then use common line and...

I'm going out on a limb here, but you will never get 1/8" , 0.01' in engineering terms, using that method. To be honest, it is hard to get less than ...

Jim Frame, post: 410397, member: 10 wrote: This is the reason I keep a topo shoe on the pole except when shooting control points. It saves the point ...

Here in the Northwet the points are always rusting on. I have made it a habit of coating the threads with lithium grease. This puts an end to the ru...

Decades ago I told another surveyor that pink flagging worked great to tie up my girlfriend. I then proceeded to leave bits of ribbon tied to various...

Warren Smith, post: 408770, member: 9900 wrote: In California, it was in effect under PLSA section 8753 (repealed in 2005). It provided for temporary...

Our data collectors using Leica Smartworks and Viva have a function to connect to our FTP site. I just email the crew on their phone when I upload a ...

Yeah, I have that on a laptop currently. My main use for 360 is looking for control and field checks and I think I can still red line in the basic ve...

Stephen Ward, post: 408437, member: 1206 wrote: Free with subscription but not the maintenance plans. So if you own your software and pay yearly/dear...

I'm kind of in bind at this point. I just had replaced one of our ATX1230 systems through and insurance claim. It turns out that while they seem to ...

I think it comes free with your yearly subscription tribute to Autodesk

It sounds like both original parties are still around and hold title. The first thing I would do is try to get them to agree on where they thought th...

Zapper, post: 407739, member: 6470 wrote: More accurate than a wingding... I was never sure of that. I could never understand why they did not have ...

For topographic mapping I would just give a cross section every 25 feet since it is the density that is more critical that the actual stationing for t...

Jim Frame, post: 407441, member: 10 wrote: I didn't get any notice from Verizon when I signed up about losing my static IP if the line isn't active. ...

therock003, post: 407476, member: 12282 wrote: IP is not an issue. Lets say i get static, or i know my ip at the time of the job. So connecting my Bas...

I started surveying by accident while on a glaciology expedition, something about being big enough the carry my gear plus a T-16 across the ice field....

I got my I2Gold straight from AT&T. I've used them for close to 20 years now and they did not charge me a set up fee. I think I pay $3 a moth fo...

I occasionally use a Leica GX1230 as base transmitting data via GPRS/GSM. The first hurdle is to get a static IP for the base so the rover can find i...