Slant to the measure point.

I'm not sure when I started using HP's, I'm thinking 1978. I did so many coordinate calculations with them that I could do them in my sleep. No way co...

I have to have my HP calculator, but you do need to pay attention to DMS and d.ddd. Normally it's simple to tell, of course anything that has more tha...

I think the second example of grid vs ground should be 677.905' for the grid distance. The ground to grid formula is Grid Scale x Height Scale x Grou...

Not that the survey has to be done, getting it out of the office has to be done.

It has to be done, sluff off these surveys to your colleagues. It's good business.

If the 2 acres is square shifting one line .002' would fix it. They've lost their minds

Rounds to 2.0000 That should do it in anyone's big book of regulations. However, there is another principle involved. If the parcel was established a...

We always tried to jump the short backsights, that will tighten up the traverse. Haven't done more than a three leg traverse in 30 years, but when we ...

I sat on a point yesterday, I had line of sight for what I needed which was 1.7 miles from the base to a little road survey 1 mile away. I had the rep...

Teaching that math has minimal relevance to boundary surveying.

Work for yourself: it's liberating.

The 2 watt radio in the R10 will easily handle 2 miles line of sight. A lithium cow-bell battery will last two maybe three days. If the 450 is needed ...

I remember losing an entire job and needing to return to the field once. I believe is was circ. 1988 maybe. It was for a reclamation project, it was a...

@chris-bouffard It's a specialized subset of the legal and engineering/surveying professions. No doubt in the jungles and swamps east of the Mississip...

The $2100 per hour was a comment made to me by a client. Maybe it's an exaggeration, although he seemed serious when he related it to me. The point be...

Yes, it's common, it's always been the plot area and the scale are just enough off to make it turn. Sometimes it's the view or window, sometimes it's...

@WA-ID Surveyor I was told early on that the systems running machine control needed to calibrate, I've also been told that more recent systems can han...