The "surveyor" is a drunken reprobate and blackmailer who becomes the murder victim. And the murderer is his chainman. There are, I think, at least 4 ...

Any board complaint can be a giant PIA even when it's frivolous. Resist your urges and send her a firm but polite email explaining that your original ...

Good judgement comes with experience. A lot of experience comes from bad judgement.

BigE, post: 350629, member: 435 wrote: what exactly is that? A spiral is a curve of constantly increasing radius. Railroads and high speed highways u...

The range generally will be larger for small data sets.

Beyond Compare is what I use.

Dave Karoly, post: 350118, member: 94 wrote: I think those books are mostly obsolete. Anyone can go to the Law Library and read the law and secondary ...

chris mills, post: 350150, member: 6244 wrote: ....For most ground survey flights you might well spend several hours putting in ground control and ver...

A good machete is still the tool of choice in the Pacific Northwest. The most common thing that we are cutting through is blackberry vines, which yiel...

I expect that the business model for getting the flights done, due to the special requirements the FAA will impose, will be somewhat similar to what w...

rpenci, post: 349881, member: 2429 wrote: I made a quick video to show that it can be done. It does not connect to an instrument. It is an older versi...

Centering errors of 0.003' horizontal and 0.01' vertical are what I start with. Usually finish with that, too.

Recently our company hired a drone to fly a recently completed project to take pictures for marketing purposes. The cost was $300.

A Corps of Engineers document was linked that should be helpful. It's certainly extensive. We have been slammed at work this month so my progress has ...

In sense, and most of the time, you are right. A free coordinate has no affect on the final adjustement. On occassion you need that free coordinate in...

Kent is mainly concerned the relative precision of his project control. If he were more concerned about network accuracy using more CORs would be more...

It's been raining the usual amount, which means quite a lot, this fall in Portland. But for that last two days it 's been rather extraordinary. We had...

MightyMoe, post: 347458, member: 700 wrote: Urban control? Lots of it. There are rules for control surveys. I follow them, no exceptions.......... Co...