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 ...

Another vote for Danner Rainforest boots. Snakes are not a concern around here, but they would make fine boots for that. So pricey that I don't wear t...

".... we love the Field to Finish program and the fact that it can export a .dxf file.." I'm not sure if your meaning is that you are creating linewor...

My suspicion is that the data files from the CORS sites near your position may be slow to download.

I'm interested in what office CAD and survey package you are using. While .fbk files can still be produced, and handled by modern C3d software - as fa...

The SP coordinates you have computed look appropriate. The "2501" elevation you report is likely NAVD88 datum, while the "2499" elevation is likely NG...

I'm not a Nevada surveyor, but if you google search "NGS datasheets" you will quickly find yourself the link to the "NGS Map". Navigate on the map to ...

A Tax Map is a compilation of available records. That's not illegal. Is a licensed surveyor precluded form producing such a map by virtue of his licen...

Two things about the coding system I'm using. First is that I've sought to minimize the number of codes. Many of the systems I've used in the past tr...

cosAZ x DIST = ΔNorthing sinAZ x DIST = ΔEasting the AZimuth that corresponds to a bearing of N82°24'23"W is 277°35'37"

C. I hardly ever run a closed loop traverse, per se. I measure networks and LS adjust. If a closed loop happens it's incidental.

Taking the reverse case, it would be absurd to apply the standard of care appropriate for a sold-by-the square-inch lot in downtown Portland to a ten ...

I've worked in a lot of offices and seen a lot of "systems", but I've never seen any two quite the same. The main thing is to have a system that every...