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Kris Morgan
@kris-morgan
Joined: July 1, 2010 1:41 pm
Topics: 123 / Replies: 3753
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RE: Bluetooth on Topcon Total Station

therock003, post: 423446, member: 12282 wrote: I own Topcon GPT-7500 Series total station with the embedded Windows CE board. I was wondering what the...

8 years ago
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RE: aluminum disks in concrete

We have always used epoxy, rather than cement when affixing disc's to concrete. 5 ton sets up pretty quick. We used a standard concrete drill bit an...

8 years ago
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RE: Seco Ultralite Prism Pole

NEIL T, post: 423255, member: 12302 wrote: We have one of the ultra lite poles 15 foot I think. It works fine all the way down, but at 15 feet it is l...

8 years ago
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RE: How do you measure this distance?

makerofmaps, post: 422953, member: 9079 wrote: I am reading a new alcohol ordinace in our County and it has the following?[INDENT]In special recogniti...

8 years ago
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RE: Dowsing Poll

I've done it a bunch, but the way I proved it to myself was to dowse a pipeline, mark it with pin flags, then come back and use a pipeline locator, ho...

8 years ago
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RE: GPS Survey control planning

First, for your scenario, you need two receivers at least. Three would be better. All L1/L2 gear and have one act as a base and process static vecto...

8 years ago
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RE: honky tonk blues

Many many moons ago, circa 1989 and I was 12, I remember a lot of news coverage about how "The Rainbow Coalition" had set up camp on the East side of ...

8 years ago
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RE: Google Earth

It's WGS84. NAD83 works well. You have to use the power of CAD to flip a NAD27 to 83 to make it work.

8 years ago
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RE: Wife can't dowse

JB, post: 422191, member: 346 wrote: Doing a little project in the yard and dowsed the location of the water service from the curb.Wife was watching a...

8 years ago
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RE: Illegible Plat

Mark Mayer, post: 422210, member: 424 wrote: Deeds frequently quote the dimensions.The plat of "City of Portland", which land is now dozens of blocks ...

8 years ago
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RE: Illegible Plat

Andy Nold, post: 422203, member: 7 wrote: You never know, there might be an original framed and hanging on the wall of a local surveyor. Sometimes th...

8 years ago
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RE: DSWORLD

I haven't used it in a while; however, I did notice that the earlier versions worked MUCH better and ended up going back to one like 2.3 instead of th...

8 years ago
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RE: Illegible Plat

RPLS#, post: 422099, member: 12280 wrote: How do you survey a lot when you cant read the dimensions on the recorded plat? especially lots with a radiu...

8 years ago
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RE: really starting to hate color surveys

For up to 11"x17" I have the ability for color. Past that, I do not. We had an old pen plotter (HP7580) and we had black, and wide black. I learned...

8 years ago
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RE: coordinate transform help

Also, since you don't have CAD, you could bring in the dummy points and do the very same thing inside your DC, export them after and voila.

8 years ago
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RE: coordinate transform help

Drilldo, post: 420076, member: 8604 wrote: I have what seems to me to be a bit of a strange coordinate transform problem I need to solve.I have a 3D g...

8 years ago
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RE: Monument - What is it?

It's a good one. That's what it is! 🙂

8 years ago
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RE: Vertical Control

FrancisH, post: 419606, member: 10211 wrote: Paul,I have checked static/RTK sessions with level loops (<10km) and difference NEVER EVER came to <...

8 years ago
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RE: Vertical Control

Mark Mayer, post: 419227, member: 424 wrote: No. It's to facilitate the use of GIS data in the design process. Close enough is good enough. BTW, I am...

8 years ago
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RE: Vertical Control

FrancisH, post: 419012, member: 10211 wrote: It seems that surveyors are becoming lazy to run a level loop from a benchmark to work site.What?? Reall...

8 years ago
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