@holy-cow Title and lawyers often dislike the North 1/4 corner and would rather see the northwest corner of the NE 1/4. Early in my career I was off...

@dmyhill My guess is 2035

@allen-wrench That's how I've usually done it. There are quite a few sections around here with quarter corners that only apply to one section and th...

@nate-the-surveyor Just wait till we start chasing coordinates with the new 2022.

Unless otherwise requested I will not give out elevation information for boundary. Any elevation data that is accumulated during the survey is not fo...

@scrass I don't have any problems building it, the problems come with the calibration not being able to match an inclined plane to the Geoid. I purp...

@leegreen That's good to hear. I can't understand why geoids were kept out of machine control equipment. In the early days of GPS that probably mad...

@rover83 I did resections before having any programs that did it. It's trivial math, super easy to calculate yourself with any calculator with sine/...

I've been told by machine control operators that they have to calibrate just like Scrass says. However, that was some time ago, 2014 as I remember. ...

@bstrand If you're using older or newer units it's helpful to continue to clean out the base files. Take a little time and look at the base files, i...

@ashton It's won't happen before I'm finished, pretty sure of that.

@ashton That's been an ongoing issue. I was retracing an older set of ROW's circ 1930's. They didn't bother to set ROW monuments and I was having lo...

All one has to do is follow one’s own survey to find out one is not repeatable on the 2 or 3 hundredth level. And there's a difference between the ...

@rover83 Sure, but how did this thread go this way, LOL. It's got nothing to do with trainees.

@holy-cow You need a buy-out.