Agreed.....A point I was attempting here is..looking through the gun, watching the rod being rotated, the crosshairs would move off center of the rod ...

I use an A7 360 prism and have had no trouble traversing with it..What I have discovered however, is when rotating the rod, the pointing will deviate ...

What you need is an external battery pack.. There is a motorcycle (wet-cell) battery housed in a waterproof "pelican" case with a lead to Topcons' ex...

Sounds like you're using the early model Ranger 200 that is running the Windows CE and perhaps SP 4.x.(however, not SP 4.11 or greater because some ge...

You may have also found that the c/l monuments may not necessarily fit the lots.

What ever your line type or pen style is..or..scaled from an existing map..

I apologize to Paul, and the readers, if I sounded critiquing in the first half of my earlier post where using an instrument to transfer the centerlin...

Nice diagram, is that from a book of standards.. I do, however, have a couple issues with the methodology (not necessarily a terrible method, though)....

A DC software that's not riddled with bugs!

Quite the norm for LA..ever see the movie, Escape from LA?

Not on subject, and perhaps trivial (brings back fond memories though)... Two, several hundred acre tracts of land were bounded by a lengthily portio...

Nice to see they are "on-line" now! In the recent past, research requiered going to the City Hall (where the land records are NOT housed) and pay an ...

CGS's are widely used as survey monuments..can be ordered from survey suppliers..careful of that last 'hit' the head will 'snap off'

Surveyor's featured in current TV seriesHell on Wheels, an AMC series about the Union Pacific, has been featuring the Surveyor in every episode. This ...