Wendell, post: 428210, member: 1 wrote: Let me get this straight... we measure using instruments that are 1200 miles in space but we are worried about...

Long ago we entered into an agreement with Payless ShoeSource to handle all their surveying needs in the region, boundary, ALTA, topo, construction st...

roger_LS, post: 422017, member: 11550 wrote: I think the heart of the issue here is that as a whole, the surveying profession has regressed in terms o...

Jim Frame, post: 421905, member: 10 wrote: I think the reason has more to do with reproduction than with fading of the original. The B&W ROS requ...

Can't use color in Record of Survey and subdivision maps in California; it's against the law:[INDENT]"8763. Record of survey - sheet requirement The r...

Daniel Ralph, post: 415644, member: 8817 wrote: That hanging from the tripod should do the trick. Not funny. The frivolous or false use of the rad...

I'm suspicious we're not looking at the original document(s). It's dated 1849, and the first typewriter to be commercially successful was invented in...

Nate The Surveyor, post: 417124, member: 291 wrote: Whenever I've mended the tape, we put a patch over it with a butt connection so the length stayed ...

James Fleming, post: 415477, member: 136 wrote: That said, I run what's probably an unusual field model, because I don't have a lot of traditional in...

NorthernSurveyor, post: 413299, member: 149 wrote: In about 1976 Hewlett Packard had a Survey COGO package that ran on a HP 9815 computer. [ . . ....

PLS Cecilia Whitaker is the (retired?) expert both optical and later GPS concerning dam deformation and other high resolution studies. She even devel...

A possibly lone voice from the other side of the fence is that these people are tired of their remote, difficult to patrol property being vandalized, ...

Jim in AZ, post: 407529, member: 249 wrote: "... and I hate how the government agencies have mandated their formats to work for them only." It's not r...

Mark Mayer, post: 410216, member: 424 wrote: Of the 3 states I've taken Oregon was toughest, Washington a close 2nd, Oklahoma 3rd. But that is also th...

Patrick McGranaghan, post: 409751, member: 8212 wrote: Sun filters? Are you going to check out the eclipse this summer? The cat's meow back in sunsho...

In the late 1960's I was making $2.30/hr working for the Forest Service. Our per diem checks were bigger than our paychecks.

thebionicman, post: 406431, member: 8136 wrote: Why on God's green earth would I enable my competitor? The problem I have with ACAD is they've absorb...

Got down to 46å¡ here last night. Turned on the heat for the first time this winter.

Nope, your pursuit of licensure is your business, not your employers. Surely they'll chime in concerning a testimonial that you worked under the guid...

Could be an autogenerated scale bar some engineering/surveying CAD software produces, which blows up if a nonstandard scale is selected. It would mak...