@dave-karoly Great stuff, well written. Thanks for posting it. I should point out that the decision was not unanimous. There was a dissenting opinion...

Drift of this sort is rarely a fault in the instrument. It is usually a setup on shaky ground,temperature effectsa loose & wobbly tripod,worn trib...

That right of entry law seems to invite anyone with survey vest to roam all over peoples curtilage under the guise of surveying. Oregon's is much more...

Let's say that Justa Surveyor gets a long term contract that pays him a good rate for 24 hours a week. Every week. That income alone is enough pay for...

@true-corner There is always a radio, of course. With modern instruments it is built into the instrument and the dc. With a Trimble 5600 series the r...

A thread from last November initiated by another contractor. The recommendation of the 5600?ÿ was discussed. My opinion then as know was the 5600 seri...

No. There are some dc softwares (Carlson SurvCE?ÿ and Spectra Precision Survey Pro are the 2 that come to mind) that are made to work with a lot of di...

A simple rebranding, which occured about the time this thread kicked off.?ÿ So if you are still using Survey Controller you are using?ÿ software that ...

In other words, if the market would just change to what you think it should be...... Sorry, it doesn't work that way. You are tilting at windmills.?ÿ ...

We can only charge what the market bears. It makes no difference what the cost of production is. If the cost of production consistently exceeds what t...

@hooks IMO, even in HP48 days Survey Pro was not the best. SMI had a much better work flow. But SMI couldn't make the jump to DOS and then Windows ba...

@hooks Holy zombie thread, Batman! The thing with Survey Pro, IMHO, is that it is exactly the same as it was 20ish yrs ago when they went to a Windows...

@field-dog Poor management will turn any endeavor into a pain in the .... rear. That doesn't make tree surveys, in general, particularly anything. I ...

I'd like to hear comments from anybody who is actually using Magnet.

I've been in this business for 30 years. 13 employers, 3 States and a Province. At no time, in no place, was a 3 man crew "normal". 2 man has always b...

There is a tendency to equate surveying using GNSS/GPS with expressing coordinates on a projection grid, such as state plane. And, conversely, surveyi...

A 3d polyline can't have curves in it. Feature lines and Survey Figures can.

Not unusual. Had a site last fall that had 11 locks. It was a Christmas tree farm that included a hilltop. The hilltop had 3 different cell phone towe...

Allow me to rephrase your question - Should landowners be allowed to create non-conforming lots through the action of BLA? I've practiced this profe...

I don't have an opinion myself, but my son does. He has been scanning for several years, including extensive experience with the Leicas and Faro. He r...