My gun (Topcon PS) puts a red laser spot on the wall when staking out reflectorless. Easy to put a target sticker or pen mark on that with out any bac...

Sonde.?ÿ It's a small transmitter that can then be located at surface. Used to trace pipes. Sorry it's not really a surveying solution. Your friendly ...

First, I don't care for using Mag Nails for permanent control. I rank it very lucky to have only lost 1 in 2 years. More properly than saying 4 of the...

Your data file looks, in large part, correct as to form. But without distances the angle only data is insufficient to compute positions for the instru...

"Topo survey for road safety improvements..." The road looks safe enough. The shoulders, not so much.

The difference is easy enough to understand. It is working in one system one day and the other the next that is asking too much. Make the switch, stic...

Re-stressing that the first recommendation is for early editions of BC&LP and E&P. Half the length of more recent, Robillard edited, editions....

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; u...

Drilling holes in quarters would make a very distinctive washer and save you about $1 per. Back when pennies where copper we would just drive concrete...

This is actually an argument against the US Survey Foot. It is actually a survey inch - being it defines itself in terms of inches per meter.

'Most all base stations thefts I've heard of occurred with the base set up right beside the road. Set it up just a little off the road and your risk o...

The wording of the declaration suggests to me that this is a protracted plat, and thus the individual lots are not marked out on the ground. There may...

Not sure, and I used that model at one time. Those models are identical in outward form, so I'd guess that either antennae calibration would work the ...

In the Pacific Northwest we work in the rain routinely. It's really not a problem. If it rains really hard drops can get on the lenses and affect rang...

Strictly speaking this is not a GPS tutorial, but rather?ÿ a projection system tutorial.?ÿ

C3d, LDD, Carlson all have alignment tools and associated reports.?ÿ

I have just always carried elevations with my traverses whether I need to or not. It has long since stopped being a big deal. Yes, you need to if you ...

In this case these people signed the deeds 2 years before the monuments were placed. They not only would do it, there is documentary proof that they d...