I had just gotten to work in the survey dept of the City of Lakewood in CO. Didn't know about it, just a normal coffee-filled morning when a crew chie...

Not sure I would sign. I do believe in an apprenticeship option, but someone with just book study or just fieldwork makes me pause. I believe that the...

I'm with MightyMoe on this one. As a control surveyor, I have made some good money following control surveys done by others. Too many control points i...

Those occupation times for the RTN are not adequate for a defensible boundary position if there should be a dispute that goes to court. Just sayin' ...

Here's an article on it:/p> It's a strange article to me since it makes no mention at all about the different vertical datums, and what's a centimet...

I've had a CST Berger in my truck for 20 years and it works just fine for me. I liked the Schonstedts too when I used them, but I don't see lots of di...

I don't believe I've ever gotten it even though through the New Mexico society I was supposed to be a member.

I've done a number of topo's and as-builts with GPS/GNSS plus Disto. But I did not integrate the Disto readings into my controller. Distance Distance ...

I got lost in the forest once upon a time, driving. Lost the road and ended up in a stream bed with trees all around. Truck influenced my compass need...

I'm with Holy-Cow on this one. I went to a city job years ago, 5 years until vesting for retirement, boundary, engineering and construction work so lo...

Are you sure? You know that these days they do successfully do lung transplants.

It sounds like KS doesn't differentiate between witness and reference monuments. There is the BLM way, and there is the geodetic way. Witness marks ge...

So Gene, when you rotate those stones back in to make them upright, don't you change the orientation of the chiseled lines indicating the direction an...

Sounds like you might want to check your communications in those areas. You've been doing this stuff long enough that you can check the CORS position,...

Arrogant idiots. IMO the more money they have the stupider they are. We had a few in my neighborhood that built into platted easements because they we...

[/quote] I had this insane conversation/argument with a very opinionated engineer that told me they got a precise location for the Washington monume...

Call me old fashioned. I say never establish control with RTK. If you can do repeat observations 4 hours later, then you should be able to do a static...

Efforts are going on to get FEMA into the conversation about the transition to the new datums. Don't hold your breath, but the Federal Geodetic Contro...

Confused. EGM96 is a geoid that is usually applied to the WGS84 ellipsoid for ortho heights. NAVD88 is a vertical datum with heights related to the GR...

Elementary surveying--any edition. The Wolf & Brinker old editions don't have much about satellite surveying, but as a primer on survey basics the...