It's been a while since I read you other post; so forgive me if this has already been discussed. I locate most of the improvements on my surveys with ...

New data collector and old instrument should work. I have a spectra precision nomad that I purchased new in 2013. I have used it with various older gu...

Pricing jobs is one of the toughest things I do. We're not supposed to ask what other surveyors charge (our board is serious about price fixing-for su...

My comments about sighting the center of the pole are irrelevant since he was using a robot. I would bet money on his level bubble being out of adjust...

aliquot, I think you have confused me for the original poster.

And just for the sake of covering all the bases: You did convert your GPS control points from Grid coordinates to Ground coordinates. Right?

"It also looks from the pictures that a 360 prism on a pole may have been used for the traverse. From reading other posts here it seems that traversin...

So are you importing the .tsj file from the Total Station into Toplink? If so, you should be able to export a .csv file from Toplink. I haven't used a...

We already had the network set-up and running on our regular data collector w/surveypro. I just set it up exactly the same in the spare data collector...

I have an extra data collector with Survey Pro Demo on it. I have used it as a network rover. We have a permanent base set-up at the office and use sn...

BS in Construction Engineering & Technology from Louisiana Tech, class of '87. My dad was a licensed surveyor as well. His degree...Philosophy!?!?

Yesterday I got a fix in the woods on a forty corner at about 2:00pm. by 2:30 I'd taken about 6 fixed shots. Only 2 of them were within 0.1' of each o...

I've used Schonstedt, Sub-surface, and CST metal detectors. I prefer sub-surface. They work just as well as (or better than) Schonstedt, but have bett...

Hey Mark, I'll try to IM you tomorrow when I get back to the office. We haven't bought a base. We've just been using an old Topcon Legacy E. We were h...

OK. I guess I need a lesson on PPK with SurveyPro. I usually just take a 20+ minute shot with the Rover as a check. I then process that file and my ba...

"Why cant you solve the baseline with 5 secs in the same way, but with post processing." That's what RTK does...It just solved your baseline on the 5 ...

Do you want to be known as "a part of the solution" or "a part of the problem"? I'm working on a survey now where everyone has been holding the fencel...

"More precise, OK. Less prone to errors, hmmmm, maybe not so much." In the "old" days, I was bad to reverse numbers when writing them down. I've never...