I have an LS friend in Central Washington who had something similar happen to him back in the eighties. A Canadian Company(s) developed an undergroun...

makerofmaps, post: 351348, member: 9079 wrote: Turn on a plumb bob. Oh I forgot nobody carries those any more. Set your spike in the powerpole one foo...

Jim Frame, post: 351250, member: 10 wrote: I don't think fraud is germane to the discussion. If the field personnel can't be trusted to follow prescr...

Scott Zelenak, post: 351274, member: 327 wrote: I don't believe I've ever encountered that scenario.The "loop will meet specifications but actually be...

Scott Zelenak, post: 351274, member: 327 wrote: Mike Marks said in the OP."But occasionally when talking with non space based geodesists I see a light...

Bill93, post: 351105, member: 87 wrote: You will undoubtedly have different HI on the way back, so that takes care of the correlation of least counts....

Jim Frame, post: 351092, member: 10 wrote: "Points" in this context means bench marks, not TPs. And you don't want similar atmospherics on the back r...

John Hamilton, post: 351004, member: 640 wrote: According to the Geodetic glossary:leveling, double-run - Leveling done by proceeding from starting po...

NDrummond, post: 338187, member: 1865 wrote: The Kern and Wild Invar rods were 3meters long, I know that Wild also had 1m and 2m Invar rods graduated ...

A Harris, post: 345154, member: 81 wrote: There are still some lands in limbo that need more money than the property is worth to clear the title. Bin...

"The parties are OK with the fence being the boundary line." What a wonderful world we live in where that can happen. The particular mechanism to mem...

The Wild T-2 theodolite, what an elegant instrument. I have the user Manual (well, most of it nowadays) unfortunately only inside my head. My favori...