They can. I minimize my use of the survey database. You can import the points directly to the drawing - from a csv or txt file - where they are Cogo P...

The survey can also say that the monument is not there right now, but it was at exactly such and such a spot at some specific previous time. That info...

As surveyor for a mid-sized city - about 20 square miles in area - I am in the process of building and maintaining a StarNet job of measurements inclu...

Such as when answering academic textbook questions. Otherwise rare. In urban surveying we do have to restore destroyed PLSS monuments from time to t...

I'm mostly an urban surveyor, so I don't get a lot of practice in this area..... I have found that textbooks are all over the place with some of thes...

Also no statement regarding which projection is being used. That's kind of a glaring omission.

As mapping experts we surveyors forget that a lot of people just cannot comprehend a map. A map might as well be hieroglyphics to them. A great many p...

I was a Trimble user for many years, buts it's been over 4 years now since I last touched one, and 8 since I was a regular user. Back then, there was...

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...