Don't get me wrong. Absolutely avoid trying to fix any blame. At least until it becomes crystal clear that things are being abused. This isn't the mil...

I have a few stories about guys who have lost or damaged their pin finders (and other tools), either maliciously or accidentally, and then gone for mo...

Every RTK unit I've ever used, and I've used multiple examples of each of the big 3, yields a coordinate quality estimate. These are aspirational. A ...

A few months back Kuker Rankin, the Leica dealer here in the PNW, offered me a used MS-50 for a low price. It seems that they had several that had bee...

That's a big investment. As you say they are well over a grand nowadays. You know that they can be repaired, good as new, right? I had one of those co...

It is important to tailor your response to the audience. I like to tell construction superintendents that I bring order to his disorderly world. I t...

The only maps that I do that require a vicinity map are ALTAs. Such maps are likely to be used by people in another part of the country with no local ...

Changing temperature as when the instrument is brought from storage indoors to the field. Or strong sun on one side causing differential warming. Hist...

I do not consider Topcon's RC-5 or Leica's AP-20 to be "active prisms". In both cases the prism is still being tracked passively. I haven't had a chan...

All this negativity about the active track prism! It works great for 99% of survey work. It is unparalleled for tracking ability in most uses. BTW, I ...

Good Luck!

I am surveyor for a mid-sized city. One particular street corner right of way in my fair city (the SW corner of 5th St. and Western Ave., Beaverton, O...

The static vectors are likely to be of slightly better quality, particularly if the rover locations are compromised and you engage in vector refinemen...

Yes, you could do that in StarNet. But, from Base 1, you should use either the static vector or the RTK vector, but not both. Using the same data twi...

In Softdesk there was a block called "ADCADD_ZZ" (or something like that). It had no visible entities, but it contained non-visible attributes that to...

These things were likely not considerations in a 1950's subdivision, but may be when John goes to subdivide his holdings in the present. I'm of two m...

In todays world parcels like K-106 would be designated open space tracts and held by the public (usually via the relevant parks department) in perpetu...

Here in the US the National Geodetic Survey provides: 1. a network of Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) and makes their data available ...