Kelly, I do this everyday, but with an app. I resurrected a old S7 that can not do it, but the app and an external antenna can. Are you looking for da...

Yes. Yes. Good idea. I'll try that. And Yes.?ÿ Yellow Spray Paint seems to last the longest. A Front End Alignment tool is also useful. 'Also, befo...

@dmyhill?ÿ ?ÿI thought that was the whole point of a VRS? Like having a single base line station right on your site.

@jim-frame?ÿ Is that the waxy fat lead similar to a China marker that you can twist the top and more lead comes out? I had one but can't find it. it w...

@skeeter1996?ÿ You are correct, it was accurate and the shoe fits. NGS is a government organization, when the need money, they tax you. They get the m...

@skeeter1996?ÿ ?ÿWasn't trying to insult you. You just had a bunch of knowledgeable people trying to help you but you could not get over your complain...

@skeeter1996?ÿ ?ÿWhen you have not been around very long or have much experience surveying, new ones come easy.

@fairbanksls?ÿ ?ÿGood Point. Run a real benchmark to the site from nearest NGS benchmarks, then there will no longer be that question. And use their o...

@holy-cow?ÿ Yes, but FEMA was broke and that added a lot of dollars to their depleted fund. I live on the coast with a fair number of twenty foot bluf...

@holy-cow?ÿ Our 'soon to be adopted' FIRM Maps are now LIDAR based and they are awesome.?ÿ All the LOMAs I've done are now out of the floods zone and ...

Sure, if you have not finished you boundary calculations, observe known points and two wood stakes in the swamp within a few feet and at 90?ø to field...

@skeeter1996?ÿ ?ÿFor the third time Skeeter, I disagree with you again.?ÿ Aerial control for FIRM Maps is done after the flight. You are provided pin ...

@skeeter1996?ÿ ?ÿPerhaps you do not understand the difference between a Plane and a Geoid?

@bill93?ÿ I have had to do that once in my life. Everyone gets called in during a storm, provided a box of 60D nails, a handheld GPS and a rental car....

@skeeter1996?ÿ ?ÿYou don't understand why the county does not want an unpermitted building below BFE on the books. That seriously handicaps their Comm...

@skeeter1996?ÿ ?ÿ How has FEMA tried to deceive you? How is FEMA (not FEMA contractors) but FEMA, incompetent??ÿ Have you ever talked to a FEMA specia...

@skeeter1996?ÿ ?ÿOnce again, I disagree with everything you just said. FIRM Maps ARE based on NAVD 88, just like it says on the FIRM Map. They are not...

@skeeter1996?ÿ ?ÿ Pretty much disagree with everything you said, based on geometry, my experience, NGS vs OPUS, FIRM maps and working with local offic...

How much do you dumb down the tifs, or do you use them at full strength (resolution)?

Don't use OPUS for elevations. The only accurate way to determine vertical elevations with GPS (and the only way NGS recognizes GPS vertical elevation...