I think @rover83 and @murphy nailed their points. I believe this is why the ALTA relative position tolerances not a bad guide to follow. .07 + 50ppm...

I just started running Carlson civil survey on top of civil 3d. So far Carlson has made my limited cad experience much easier. It is way more intuitiv...

I think you are thinking correctly by not just trying for the minimum standard. It is why many as mentioned above from others now perform a least squa...

Back in the 90’s if we closed less than 1:50000 and or the angle angle misclosure was less than the old specs we re ran them. That was manual total st...

Yeah they always get blamed.

We have all been exposed. Hopefully this gets fixed. But I didn’t see this coming.

Rubber sheeting is what is happening for sure. But that’s because of lack of knowledge. Imagery can only be so accurate and so precise. One doesn’t h...

What you describe is a perfect solution for GIS. Once you use cad and comp everything you could simply attribute the takes and gives several different...

Maybe he was rich not poor. Or just having a bad day. I know one that always pushes the blame down the line. I didn’t do that my cad tech did. Respons...

I always ask which North. Assumes Geodetic Astronomic Grid Then often get the deer in headlights look along with there is only one north up. lol.

Yeah at my last place of work I was doing lots of map checks. On plats about to be signed. By others. That whole wrong quadrant thing can get tricky r...

Yeah learning this stuff is exactly that. Frustrating but comforting. Hopefully I will continue to learn all of this. One thing for sure is someone is...

Maybe it’s not the # sign as you see it but a challenge to tic tac toe. lol.

Geezers it was only a few years ago I had even heard the term hashtag lol. My wife rolled her eyes. I knew it as the number and pound sign. But this s...

What an amazing connection to history you have. During the raids on Japan my grandfather’s older brother was shot down. He evaded the enemy for 300 mi...

Awesome to have you back.

I have done text not labels from tbc. To a kml. It gets tough to read on a phone if your crews read it so I often had to play with the elevation on th...

Not only an Anti Theft but also an Anti Valet. I had an old 94 F150 and use to brief at the pentagon. A lot of times we were in a time crunch so they...