I would never survey out of that. Just because my GNSS is from Taiwan and IS the least expensive, does not mean I am a cheapskate.?ÿ
@mathteacher?ÿ ?ÿ ?ÿ ?ÿ ?ÿ You have to understand GRAVITY or else you will forever remain a GNSS LIGHTweight.
@rover83?ÿ ?ÿIt is complicated, it helped my to remember that a plumb bob does not point to the center of the Earth.
Cool, never have seen one until now.?ÿ Are the face ticks painted of engraved??ÿ?ÿ
Sub it out. Have real airplane pilot 'fly' the site with a UVA on a routine basis. I think you will find the cost affordable.
@rover83?ÿ Agreed, I have secondary points that I have occupied repeated over a twenty-year period. They always produce the same values when the obser...
It is NOT those documents "of record" that concern me, they are easy to find. It's those documents NOT of record that bother me and I want the user of...
George Cole's book is technical instruction for surveyors mainly based on the lines that divide sovereign land from cadastral land. Just by reading th...
A simple inverse between the two coordinates would give you the a chord and a direction dimension. It would not be the distance between the two nor th...
Lost or Obliterated? It makes a difference. Your lazy surveyor may have some information you do not have.?ÿ Case Law is becoming evermore a part of ou...
I allow myself to do that ALL OF THE TIME. I once considered myself more picky most posters, I guess I am not.?ÿ
@gmpls?ÿ ?ÿ Thanks for that article reference.
If I used NRTK to set control points, I would hold a "midpoint" between the two network pairs in order to better isolate each ones corresponding error...
An android data collector would make the 3G, 4G or 5G problem moot.?ÿ
There are several Disto models. I am sure you can find one that fits your price/function needs. Correcting the measurement to a vertical distance, val...
@mark-silver Yep, tripods used to come with a stedi-rest. I keep one in the truck, because I am usually in the field when I notice the vial is out a l...
@holy-cow?ÿ ?ÿSounds like when I worked for a large engineering company. We would leave off a few things for the nit-pickers to bust us on, then they ...
@norman-oklahoma?ÿ ?ÿYes, as long as you do an overall, then things seem to work out fine. The engineer is going to re-chop it up wrong anyway.
@leegreen?ÿ ?ÿI have occupied Section Corners at 3am and not even the sheriff stopped to ask what I was doing.
I Love Leicas. I Love Smartphones. I Love using Smartphones as Data Collectors. I DO NOT want a Leica Smartphone.?ÿ