If you are working on the highway all your trucks should have flashers mounted. They aren't all that expensive. Really, every work truck should have ...

There are a load of great youtubes. Look for Rami Tamimi, Landon Blake (Redefined Horizons), & David Woolley (Orange County Chapter, CSLA). And th...

I see your problem with the parcel boundary, but it seems to me that an access easement could be written that is independent of a precisely known boun...

That's more like it.

That's a pretty cool option that I'd never thought of before, but I still would not like to be without a "Stedi-rest". Cheap, like borsht. Easy to kee...

I use this approach, except perhaps for initial monument searches.

The basalts (dark colored volcanic rocks) commonly found in the Portland area do. Quite strongly in many cases.

I'd be using a minimum of 3 points to localize. An exception to this is if I was localizing to provide myself with search parameters for more points ...

It is very common everywhere I've been. Except in B.C. Some guys worry about it a lot, but it only rarely causes a problem. A homeowner is just as lik...

Dittos on the Bernsten Brass Plugs. There are suppliers other than Bernsten as well. You will want to invest in a rotary hammer and the special counte...

Then you might like the book "Logic for Lawyers".

I can assure you that, at least at the city I work at, the PE plans are poured over very thoroughly and checked for compliance with the city's "Engine...

Adding these things doubles your cost? Seriously? That's a stretch. And they don't even have to be presentable on paper. Just present. (1) The foll...

The question would be "how do I convert ellipsoidal heights to orthometric?" The answer, "by applying Geoid 18" Are topos ever recorded? No...

Same here. I just put a collection of notes and symbols like this into the file.

One would be a datum and the other is how you connected your survey to it.

I didn't say that it was without value. Only that I thought that it is overrated. My 1997 reprint has very heavy hardboard core covers and a sta...

I mentioned 4 hr OPUS sessions in that RTK Control Guidelines document. That is still the recommendation from the NGS for OPUS, because the measuremen...