Almost 100% of my jobs have contracts. 99% of those are "Letter" contracts, basically a 1 page letter. The other 1% are mostly 100 page monstrosities ...

When I use OPUS usually manually choose the CORS that are used and I get the extended solution, which I import to StarNet. Often I get a second soluti...

You would need a basis of bearings in some form. If you were using GPS, your basis of bearings would be would be on the chosen projection by default...

Being a fairly conservative minded guy I can't really argue with that. But I can't argue with the fact that Oregonian property values are among the hi...

It's true, Tommy. The land use laws in Oregon are strict. Your head would explode.

Foggy needed there to be a legend on his drawing. Might as well make it a Cape Cod Legend.

Back in '98, in Oregon, the reference forms were returned to the applicant in sealed envelopes, stamped and signed across the seal, and forwarded with...

I used the 1001 Solved Surveying Fundamentals Problems book for study back in '98 when I wrote. It was great. But it's out of date and out of print no...

I submit a surface model. We use C3d in our office, and the engineers want a drawing with 2d elements only (which they xref) and a drawing with the ...

...what can I say. I'm boring. How long have you lived in WV? In Spencer? When did you start surveying? Who was your mentor? When did you get licensed...

Looks good. Maybe even better on mobile. I recommend that you move the "About Us" content to the home page and dispense with "About Us". Or else use "...

Yes. All those things. Even the department manager does his share of drafting. I'm trying to convince him that he, and the other PLSs, should do less ...

Mike Falk, post: 333702, member: 442 wrote: Why are you staking grid lines? I generally do it for a fee when a contractor asks me to. The contractor ...

These high update rates have application where the receiver is moving, as with machine control or positioning the camera/lidar in an aircraft. It mea...

I'll second Randy's recommendation. I had a Dell Precision M4800 outfitted like that at my last job and it was awesome. Previously I had a Lenovo W50...

Same day. A few hours, usually.

Use the RTK to establish control. Do the topo ties with the Robot.

Minimum wage in HK is $30HK dollars/hr. Which is equivilant to something under $4US dollars.

The street is (in most ordinary cases) an easement, not a fee parcel. You don't proportion easement widths.