> Oregon dodged a similar restructuring proposal to FL back in 2009.The Oregon thing was all about budgets and funding. It nothing to do with "an o...

Their is nothing wrong with being a crew chief for life but time will come, soon, when you are no longer physically able to do field work every day. W...

> I have two laptop computers that are worthless to anyone except for me; I would hate to lose them. One is an 8 year old 17" hp and the other is ...

The Lender> I'm confused... > I don't get how the 2005 standards are fine, but the 2011 are "too rigid". Unless the lenders are just pouting ab...

I have some trouble with StarTSC and resections. The conversion program terminates and identifies the line in the .dc file it can't parse. No dat file...

My most recent experience with StarTDS is seven years old now, but it was pretty much flawless. It would convert either the .RW5 or the .RAW, users c...

Tracking> I've learned that Leica actually did distribute a Star*Net converter once upon a time. I don't know whether it is still available for dow...

If an underground spring is carrying away subgrade material that means there is water movement, and installation of proper drains will carry the water...

> Nothing you can do but re-pave it every so often.How about installing some drains and compacting the soil?

> But how about a little common sense. They were going to pave the road FOR FREE!Who was going to pay to tear up, dispose of the crap asphalt, and...

The inspectors who allowed this should be on the hook for this equally with the contractor.

> She then said she didn't want the asphalt milled out, because they could reuse it. She wanted it taken up in big chunks.Good for her. An inspec...

> He scales everything up by 12 to get it to inches and changes the drawing from decimal to architects untits and leaves it in surveyors in units.P...

> Having used the SDR>StarNet converter for years, there has to be a better way than that. The folks at MicroSurvey seem to know very little abo...

> Whatever did the public do prior to that???Around here they built their improvements wherever they felt like, mostly.The reverse question has to ...

> They are planning to deregulate land surveying completely. I do not believe that "they" have any plan for the surveying profession whatsoever. ...

Google Maps and the "Snipping Tool" that comes with Windows 7, which makes it easy to capture specific parts of the view in .jpg format. If you don't ...