I posted this last week, but its a goodie.

L5 Is Ten Years AwayIn a manner it is actually a good thing that the existing satellites are routinely exceeding their predicted service life by so mu...

D.B. Cooper. This would be a couple hundred miles from his flight line.

The Kennewick cops seem to be using up all their fancy cop equipment. I'm sure they will end up with at least 27 color glossy photographs with circles...

I measure the distance using a folding wooden ruler, cut a hundreth and then round down to the nearest hundredth. Basically I'm cutting 0.015'. I use ...

> I think the key word here is disappear.The words of a pipsqueak "journalist". Are Texas Surveyors just going to roll over for this? If so, they d...

> According to the Houston Chronicle, Gov. Perry has the elimination of the Surveyor's licensing board in his sights. This aught to be an interest...

John Stossel on Flood InsuranceThis is one of Stossel's favorite topics.

> All I have is a manual total station.I use Trimble Survey Controller and would do as Steve suggests. With your equipment you might topo it by the...

> Maybe if I studied the case record thoroughly it would be clear to me, but I'll be lazy and ask.Briefly, the history of the corner goes like this...

> Having spent some time today cutting line through a dense hillside thicket of bamboo ...Some jurisdictions around here have designated bamboo an ...

> From what I've seen (in this area), VRS is very sloppy.I ran a test in our parking lot. The results of two 4 hour OPUS sessions on a point bracke...

> I wonder if any use a percentage of value as a pricing model for surveying services. I don't, not directly anyway. But the amount of liability I ...

> A lot of surveyors I horked with ...That's another thing. No horking is allowed on my crew.

> Snoop, why don't you try following the NGS guidelines...Thanks Joe. Snoop, skip directly to page 46.

> My biggest problem is ... when I get in the truck the next morning after a particularly wet day...moldy, smelly, YUCK!Get that wet gear out of th...

Mark. Constructive criticism please.Jud just recorded Survey Number 1569 in Morrow County. That equates to an average of about 2 per month since recor...