If you PM me I can walk you through setting up to perform all the correct comps. First you need to get the data on the same system. That’s where scali...

This is should help. This is not exact but should be close enough for a math exercise. Take your state plane starting coords. And all your sudo state ...

Nice job. It takes some due diligence to truly get to manufacture specs on using a scanner. After performing numerous scans in many different ways and...

Many of the LEOS not all but some are already using GPS to determine their positions in a near real time type environment. That could be the solution ...

Just locate to the outside center of all pins a hair. What’s a hundredth here or there . It is sad that we have to go through so much red tape to do ...

Great information. It’s why I pushed hard to stay in the grid lambert here on projects. The bs fs of short vs long. True in this situation if doing a...

Hey it’s teachers like you that made something that was extremely difficult for a dyslexic person to see the fun and understanding that math and other...

So like others have stated that’s a long distance away from a single base. What type of network are you running. Just about all manufacturers state ...

So I have met several Land Surveyors in my time that worked for the USACE. Here are my thoughts on the advertising of jobs. I don’t think it is turno...

@mathteacher I am sorry maybe it’s the muscle relaxers but I am feeling a bit juvenile. Sin = Oscar has cos = a harry tanj = old a$$. . That’s is ho...

I have no clue about the magnet software much. I did use it for staking and one thing I did like about it was the words on the screen where enlarged f...

Wow some great insights here from some very smart people. I will try and add a few things that I did with my crews and it went against the grain of ...

If your project is grid then you either need to scale it to ground or scale your ground distance to grid. They all need to be in the same system. I ra...

Have a good friend that many years ago he at some point was going to name one of his English Bulldogs PDOP. lol. Before Trimble Access on the old TSC...

Where you shooting to a 360 prism or a regular prism. Also what was the sun doing on the water at time of shooting the distance that was not repeata...

Since you can see between the points you could also set up points parallel to the line and perform the above @pfirmst stated as well. Sorry I am down...

That is so true. I just wish I could in this business. But I am not there yet.

Leadership. Many great engineers and great surveyors. While management skills have been taught and developed they have muddled the waters and exchange...

Why not set up a baseline on one side and triangulate to the point across the river as a check. Do this at night if possible. You could do this simult...

Something we have done a few times in mountains is I would set up 2 bases a few miles a part. Same frequency same everything just know the different s...