@peter-lothian yes, exactly

@peter-lothian I hear you. I was tempted to tilt at that windmill. However, each resubmission can extend the approval by 3 months, it's not wort...

You can often make more money by turning down work than taking it. Imagine you're working as a surveyor on that tilting building in NYC with that lang...

The cost of 8k is way under a fully enabled R980. However, I was told by a Trimble rep a few years ago that the cheap 980s are not enabled to do what ...

Not there for me, maybe when I blocked it long ago my block is still working.

There is? I don't see it.

The entire cadastre of the US is in feet (rods, perch, chains, ect. being units of feet) and to switch is a more difficult task than I first thought. ...

I used metric at the beginning of my surveying career. I would measure all control in feet, switch to the metric option on the distance meter and reme...

You must be sure you're comparing apples to apples throughout the entire process. The exact datum, the exact controlling coordinates for each program....

UTM is listed in the Datum reference on the plat, I very much doubt that there is a way to use ITRF or other Datums with the OP's knowledge of the DC....

I can't quite make out the information on the shown plat. I think you're in BC and the Datum is UTM in Zone 10 which makes sense for BC. They show a...

I'll tap out around -10. And over 100.

If you use no projection, no datum, then available canned photography and some other easily connected data sources usable for AutoCAD can't be accesse...

.07' in 1000' is 70ppm. I dream of that kind of accuracy. 800ppm Is more likely here than 70ppm within a state coordinate system. Normally it floats b...

All our administrative processes are done with Xcel. From timesheets, billing, filing, even super simple ones like bidding. If your spreadsheets ar...

Field time is the most productive of all surveying time. Frankly, I don't understand how this became a question.

Do you really mean predicting field crew time? Tracking it isn't difficult. I don't know what "firms" you're discussing this with, but my experi...