@rankin_file I hear ya. We upgraded for one reason. Drones. Seemed it was a better (cheaper) option to add drones to our new license purchase. ...

@john-hamilton Version 2026.10 - 6/1/2026 We updated all computers to this version. I don't have access to older ones, so I can't check if it was...

@john-hamilton I'm uploading through TBC.

@john-hamilton I've not seen .05m between OPUS Nad83 and RTX Nad83 when they process the same baseline. I don't look it as coordinates but I wil...

@gary_g You can get above the ground if you force the surface beyond the zone limits. I've seen some extreme examples of this. One company I worked...

@lurker I get that, if the local state plane was used to set out the points, the ground distances would be longer. You're reporting that they are s...

@lurker How are the bearings, in a TM zone, you would need to be a long way east or west of the zone limits to see the surface that far above the g...

@lurker I'm just guessing; they probably imputed the scale factor reversed. That implies that the calculation program was reversed also. But to get...

@norman-oklahoma Is there a zone in the US where the SP surface is 6000' above the ground?

@lurker Isn't that backwards? They did an inverse of state plane? If the coordinates for staking were calculated in a state plane file, using 2000...

@holy-cow They came up with a new rule that the roof overhang, shingles, even the gutters can't overhang into a utility easement. So that pushes ma...

The good thing is that all the laid out monumentation and presumably areas are larger than record. This assumes that no adjustments are applied to the...

When I would see state plane show up on surveys it was almost always a coal mine, or a big government project. No one else did it. Then GPS came al...

@holy-cow I've never encountered the mythical 60.00' ROW. I have on very rare occasions prorated across blocks and used the "King gets his" BS to p...

Sometimes when the data talks to you; you should probably listen to it.

@williwaw Lordy!!  

4 hours is an old time recommendation. Depending on the distance to control; anything under 30 miles away wouldn't require 4 hours, I would be more in...

@olemanriver We've called the service PPP that allows real time "accurate" positions. Accurate is doing a big lift using it when we tested it again...

@olemanriver We only use it for static reductions. We don't use OPUS for much of anything but checking lat, long values. OPUS has been iffy for ver...

@olemanriver Yes the job is set up in NAD83, have you used RTX with the newest version of TBC?