The CS20/Captivate was a disappointing successor to the CS15/Smartworx Viva. So much heavier and Captivate does not have proper pinch to zoom or usab...

Why do you want a 360° one? I find for topo in the wide open where the tracking may be useful then it's GNSS anyway. I'm only using total station arou...

You've come to a great spot, lots of interesting surveying discussion here.

Those are more like the figures I was expecting assuming they open then up and check inside also then run the calibration. A colleague who uses ...

@norman-oklahoma Hire in a slam scanner?was a great introduction I thought.

Depends what you want it for but appears iPhone with lidar for indoor and cheap rtk gnss for outdoor achieve better precision for similar costs based ...

However by the time you've done this with a crew if you factor in charge out rates not much cheaper than just buying genuine is it? I know it does mak...

@thebionicman That describes what I see and my standard observing practice. 20 epochs at 1hz, LF+RF with pole. Pole adjustment at 2m can easily h...

That's more similar to surveying in NZ. We are a recording state and show all our traverse/control marks (including ties to national control points) w...

@dave-o No I'm familiar with prism sliding on the pole option. What I want is one of those mini tripods where the pole slides up/down so I could h...

@bc-surveyor I find even at pole height shooting 100-150m+ down a road from one side to the other to a GMP101 the distances will be 1mm variation b...

The main downside to the mini tripods is you are shooting close to the ground so over a hot surface the instrument is looking a very fuzzy prism (from...

@norman-oklahoma By common practice. The survey regulations we work under require: "must be likely to remain usable and not be disturbed in the fo...

Read/p> You may not agree with everything but important to see that puddling away on hourly rates may be a satisfactory existence but not necess...

Cool will look forward to that one. Enjoyed the ATR one too. In terms of ideas be cool if you can beg/borrow brx7, gs18, Topcon/Sokkias latest ...

With the JEOC tribrachs you are using I'm assuming you are still using the genuine Leica GMP101? Always wonder whether the non genuine prisms are any...

The DeWalt DCH263 I have is excellent. Drill holes around in a square spade shape with long bit. Flick off the seal layer and then swap to the chisel ...

Another excellent video. While only looking at tree surveys it's not a large jump to view that video in context of topographic surveying generally. As...

If you're problem is in an area with good cellphone coverage consider using Carlson's listen listen? Even if it's not another surveyor using RTK...