DM is a direction measurement, SS is an angle.

The initial point of the Willamette Meridian and baseline is within the city limits of Portland, Oregon and just a few miles, as the crow flies, from ...

After 30 years in the private sector I took a public works job 4 years ago. Working within a limited area I find lots of opportunities to reuse and re...

And that's you, the guy who is making the payments on the equipment. Imagine what field crew are doing. Kind of my point.

Because, here in Oregon, a recording state, the County Surveyor reviews submitted surveys very carefully. Showing coordinates is allowed, but not requ...

Driving around with half, or even a quarter, of a full load all the time puts a special kind of wear and tear on the vehicle.

THese seem to be references to bearing trees from 1815. Is it all academic?

Before going further, check on the US foot/International foot issue.

@dms330 We have a 15yo Ricoh in our office, not that it matters. I don’t blame people for buying these low end HPs for small offices. They are, ...

I might establish control and basis of bearings for a boundary job by reference to a VRN, or by getting an OPUS position for my GPS base station. Neit...

There was a time when HP was the touchstone for highest quality. Those days are long gone. It's consumer grade crap now. If you are buying consumer ...

A while back there was an article in the Oregon Surveyor magazine about visiting the southeast corner of this great state. It is about 100 miles from ...

I have worked out of a Toyota Tacoma for an extended period. It's quite do-able as long as you are pretty dogmatic about what goes, and stays, in ther...

If your drawings are all simple and isolated you can just use "No Datum, No Projection" and get along just fine. But if you start mixing and matching ...

The laws in place in your location and at the times of the various sales and splits will have everything to do with the answer. It sounds like quite a...

I know that parts can be had for the professional grade Leicas - most commonly via Leica repair shop technicians. Not sure that it would be worth the ...