When I was at the level, it was simply; Work Hard, Have Fun, Learn Something and occasionally yank the bosses chain. Benefits didn't come into play un...
Please don't give me the authority, responsibility and requirements that I don't want. I am perfectly willing to let geographers, information speciali...
@stlsurveyor?ÿ ?ÿ I have some loose change in my desk drawer, does that make me a banker??ÿ Cool.
@shelby-h-griggs-pls?ÿ ?ÿ ?ÿNo, Swift was L1 and L2.?ÿ Remember, Simultaneous reading makes L2 meaningless,?ÿ allowing equal comparisons. The MN Test ...
@mark-mayer?ÿ ?ÿI LOVE GIS, it has made this old ground based surveyor, with 10 year old GPS equipment, a lot of money.
@holy-cow?ÿ ?ÿYep, I fought long and hard to keep from preparing Elevation Certificates for buildings nowhere near a Flood Zone and nowhere near a Bas...
300' tape, 25' tape, 25' dec/in box tape, 12' metric/eng box tape, 10' HI tape, 6" wood ruler and a disto. Going from a Ranger to an F-150 can be dang...
We have a lot of those around here. I show the boundary to centerline (or as described), monument the 25' offset (for preservation and usefulness) and...
Minnestoa DOT tested these: ?ú Hemisphere Eclipse P307?ú Swift Piksi Multi?ú NVS Technologies NV08C-RTK?ú Emlid Reach?ú u-blox NEO-M8P?ú Skytra...
@jph?ÿ That not true in my area. Here, ALL of the jacklegs were grandfathered in. I am sorry that you went to a college that left you with that experi...
@jim-frame?ÿ ?ÿYep, same here, but GRZ4 on tracking rod, GMP101 on tri / bi pod and GPR1 in the truck. I also use the GMP101 to tell if my tracking ro...
@holy-cow?ÿ ?ÿ Being solo, when some angry resident asked me who I worked for, I'd say 'Jesus Christ'. Since that never had a good result, now I say f...
@nate-the-surveyor?ÿ ?ÿTwo old surveying principles: You don't prorate blunders and you can't update mistakes. Why would I want to do either?
@vasurvey3004?ÿ YOU ARE WRONG ABOUT TITLE COMPANYS AND LENDERS CHARGING LESS SECOND TIME AROUND.
Wow, glad I was able to wait for the the J & J one shot.
@jim-frame?ÿ I previously worked in a larger city and we would intentionally add items to municipal proposals that we could later mark off. We usually...
@norman-oklahoma?ÿ ?ÿ Yep, Business is Business. You can't get your feeling hurt from a future client wants a deal because they know you did the surve...
@wa-id-surveyor?ÿ ?ÿ Why would you charge them full price for the hour field time and half hour office time that it would take. Do you get much repeat...
Elementary Surveying, by Wolf, etal; for basic surveying math Surveying, Theory and Practice, by Davis; for more rigorous survey math Route Surveyin...
@williwaw?ÿ ?ÿ Before going solo, I canoed, kayaked and hiked solo in deep backwoods. If I bite the dust solo, I hope it's with my kayak and not my ro...
