Larry Best is a bona fide hero in my opinion.

This discussion has caused me to spend some time reviewing my copies of the Wattles books. I find no strict advise that a cardinal bearing should be a...

And I wouldn't presume to argue with Wattles on this topic. If he says it's OK, it's OK.

As I understand your proposal - we have a traditional point to point traverse, but between each instrument setup station we have an intermediate stati...

Episode 39 Episode 38 | From Wattles to Today: Why Legal Descriptions Still Matter Very California centric video on Legal Descriptions from David Wo...

Software capable of a "Helmert Transformation" may be what you are looking for to be really rigorous. But what I use is StarNet to adjust and reduce t...

Technically, I think it unlikely that a permit is typically required to dig up a monument. The permit is to occupy the roadway and hold up traffic.

Oregon had that one for Records of Survey for a while. But two things happened - first, the ever diminishing supply of such monuments. Second, the rea...

Reference to a map, to be effective in the long term, requires that the map be recorded. I second Bruce's comment about the use of "to a point". If ...

I'm reminded of this story about what Bob Gibson said to his catcher: "What are you (Catcher Tim McCarver, after being sent to the mound by Manager...

Right now there is a current thread of someone trying to re-home an old surveyors garage full of not-that-old instruments. I've worked in a lot of off...

@jim-frame @williwaw I recall an article in one of the trade magazines many years ago where an outfit had cut down some tripods like that so the...

@sreeserinpa US Survey Foot v. International Foot mean nothing to your colonial records. Nor anything to the GLO surveys of the PLSS. The US Foot w...

I like your idea of a packable mounting arrangement, but I think that little three point gadget is over doing it a bit. It is intended for use on a no...

The thing with the US Survey Foot/International foot is that there are a lot more definitions of "foot" than just those two. These just happen to be t...

Robotic total stations have been a thing for over 25 yrs. I'm sure that you can find something with some life left in it for your price. I'm looking a...

Getting back to the OP, this Bohnenstingl seems to be a german manufacturer of overengineered solutions in search of a problem.

I paid about that for our second one. The first I got for a little over $6k. This tilt sensing thing is the biggest thing in data collection since ref...

I do not measure building corners. Haven’t for years. I get reflectorless shots on the walls and intersect the wall lines. If, for some reason, I c...