@oldpacer I didn't intend to be cocky or sarcastic in my response to your "Then I am not a good party chief." statement. I respect your opinion. I a...

I am really confused by all of the varying discussions of reference ellipsoids. WGS84 is the reference ellipsoid for nearly every raw satellite’s rece...

Thinking about the start of my career and wondering how many of us dinosaurs are left. How many have sharpened their 4h lead in the field with a sandp...

You can't negotiate statutory requirements out of a price proposal for preparing an ALTA survey.

I've known surveyors who made believable claims of field to finish pretty much drawing the map in the field. This is 2023. A good party chief shoul...

@oldpacer, @bill93 OK, so let's replace the nail in pavement with NGS mark EX4026. If I set the GNSS over that mark, I want it to give me the supers...

earth based X Y Z coordinate That is in ITRF or WGS84. All the other expressions are conversions done in your hardware/software. An autonomous pos...

@mightymoe OK, help me better understand. If I drive a nail in pavement and set GNSS over it, it's going to record a Lat/Lon position. From that Lat...

@mightymoe So, you tell the DC that you want, say, an NAD83(2007) autonomous position and it gives you that? Pretty cool and makes perfect sense. ...

Red necks, white socks, and Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer. Breakfast of Champions! I have the red neck and the white socks, but I drink preppy beer.

@oldpacer I was wondering weather using leather would be a good idea or if staking nails would wear them out over time. I have never had leather we...

Depends on rather you see youself on a world or on a continent?

Mag nails pk nails get popped out here in VA. They pop out everywhere. I regard MAG/PK nails as temporary control, with a "half-life" of about a ye...

This works for we. I used to have all leather, but replaced them with Lowes products after each wore out.

Dang it. I hear he's going to cancel our current listing of posts by a participant and start over at zero. Otherwise, he will need to have a new sym...