I have heard that a dolly is a good idea. Also how you mark or tab your material is important. If it’s not perfect it’s not permitted. Bound material ...

I have actually visited that place. A poor boy from Mississippi. That place was one of my bucket lists places from history. Made a round about route f...

Ya gotta get on META DATA as we all move forward. The epoch or realization of any datum changes and MTA DATA helps us all trace it if we understand an...

1st set up the base to perform RTK and logging in your survey style. Set nail in ground set up base assign a point name from a here position. The rece...

The old saying. If I do this I make this much money. If I do this I make this much. This is all it boils down to. If you don’t do due diligence to che...

You are correct that someone could set a pin etc. But you are certifying to that on a field run date. So what happens if someone did a survey a few w...

VRS give the vector and ionosphere corrections etc as well if they have it set up correctly and in the dc it’s set up.

Sounds like a conversation I had with my LS a few years ago. PE knew the client and said we need an ALTA update. I pulled the files and data saw it w...

I have just got our Trimble units on a Leica network and am slowly testing the different message types and systems types. They all produce and have no...

@Survey_joe Hey I have two books from the John Foster School that has a lot of the information in it from various sources so other books but it is con...

@Norman_Oklahoma Thats a great way to look at it however be careful with google earth for sure. I just had a hand hole shot and google earth showed it...

LOL. Well all that oxygen the casinos pump in you don’t get sleepy and all the bells and clinking of the machine keeps you in a nice cadence for drink...

Nice poll. So many years ago we ran azimuths and ran counter clockwise so we turned internal angles but azimuths. This made us dummy folks in the fie...

@MightyMoe Have you ever tried shortening the code list down and use attributes to differentiate things. So for Topo Top TOE grade breaks etc line typ...

@john-hamilton I am so with you on point numbers be unique especially in the control arena and property corners for sure. I did this and implemented i...

Sorry for getting back so late. But you have a lot of knowledgeable folks here to get ideas from. I just read @Norman_Oklahoma reply and he most defi...

@BStrand hey of course it has its branding and marketing pitch but it is a huge training opt. They basically have many classes of different subjects p...

@MightyMoe the military still did some when I was in and agency. Wild T-0. But they had become very limited on doing compass rose. I think if I was ta...