True, as long as you have plenty of other work to do.

The PLS is hired and paid by the landowner to determine boundaries, not to populate the government's GIS system. Our competition for work is not alw...

At the center point of your zone there will be a place where the defining meridian and latitudinal lines meet. Normally one might assign the coordina...

With state plane, as a rule of thumb, figure about 0.01' / 100 feet for scale distortion.

I'm guessing that surveyors of 100 years from now will be most concerned with about the same things that surveyors today are. And that is relative acc...

For what possible purpose?

BTW, this August I reach 5 years in government service after 30 years on the private side. When I signed on their were plans to add 5 positions to our...

@bluebook1807 You seem to be inside the belly of the beast. Please share any facts that you have. Without facts, I can only speculate.

Again, attempting to keep it apolitical ..... Federal government employees were offered buyouts across the board. Evidently a number of NGS people d...

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...