Have some mylar stickers printed up. They endure the weather well. I also put some of them in very insconspicuous places (like inside the rod tube, un...

Here in my fair city, at some time in the past, elevation benchmarks monumented with PK nails in a lead plug in concrete curb were established. While ...

The best way to recruit is going to be word of mouth. If your staff is willing to contact ex-coworkers and recommend your outfit you should be in good...

Starnet will adjust GNSS vectors of all sorts. It will not, however, reduce static raw data to vectors. Leica has software called “Infinity” -very ...

With the trucking and transportation industries so dependent on positioning and mapping I think we can count on NGS continuing to be funded. Maybe eve...

I have a sewer rehabilitation project. The line to be replaced runs through backyards of a 1955 subdivision. The yards are all highly developed (patio...

There are a lot of different makes and models of GPS, and supporting software, capable of measuring and analysing PPP. All have there own formats. It ...

I had a Topcon PS-103A that I was using with the Topcon 360° prism that came with it. It didn't maintain lock well. When I switched to a Leica GPZ-4 3...

I believe that he is referring to the referencing of centerline monuments (4:00 minute mark of episode 4) to nearby offsets, not to centerline monumen...

Is "CONTROL" a point which the GPS base or total station can be set up over, or a well monumented point whose position relative to other monumen...

I've never used Javad. I have used Topcon, Trimble, and Leica since 1997. I routinely collect and simultaneously adjust GPS and Terrestrial measuremen...

@mightymoe I'll grant you that control on centerline is frequently not very convenient, but saying that it can't be used was wording it too strongl...

nate-the-surveyor is a huge fan of Javad. He hasn't posted a whole lot lately but has been around.

This proposed survey can never be "survey grade" useable by any surveyor because there are no licensed surveyors involved. Because of that fact the OP...

This recent video from Landon Blake at Redefined Horizons goes in to his process, which has as much to do with the integration with their mapping syst...

The centerline monuments tied will be the control monuments of the survey. Their values, if tied as proposed, while not "survey grade" will be a major...

I'm left wondering if the decision to not support OPUS Share in the future is a technical one or more based on budgetary considerations.

Not so long ago I asked if anyone had used a Moasure for any purpose whatsoever. No takers. If you have I'd like to hear about it.