@fairbanksls . Well I always kept a rod and tackle in the truck. I kinda got board with geodetic surveying and construction work. I just read all i c...

@mathteacher our first date collectors were really dumb boxes. They kinda started out just recording data so one had all the hz angles slope distance ...

One of my all time favorites for topo back in the day. Using Wild soft to do field to finish. Man memories.

If we all just accepted the fact the earth is not flat we all would not be having these conditions lol. No state plane system and no assuming the eart...

Choke ring vs non choke ring. If you take your antennas no matter which one zepher geodetic or choke ring. You need for what you are doing is to have ...

@mightymoe I was a little intrigued so i read the first part if the pdf that Montana DOT puts out. I really like the way it is written. They speak abo...

Which rod do you have? How many? The two piece or the one piece Invar rod (s)

@mightymoe do you place geodetic north on surveys or grid north where you are located.

@bill93 . Even with our system today. 90% of what is done daily would not matter if we just left it on grid to begin with. We have become so intri...

@rover83 I was asked this question today. Will there be a different way to scale the new system to ground and how will we work with ground if it’s di...

@lukenz what brand of gear are you running. I have not done it yet with rtk data but NGS opus projects beta version will allow I think gvx vectors an...

@norm crawl before you walk. But today in reality it’s running before we have crawled. Just pick this point and hit this check box compute ground sca...

@rover83 one thing that is needed is to blow up and highlight that definition of ground. This is what surveyors know but do not relate often. All of ...

@mathteacher well most definitely. I have had to have that document in my possession since at-least 1994. I do not know how I got it. It was in with s...

Sorry I can’t figure this i phone out so someone can fix but this is a old goody. From the old letters

One thing that also doesn’t help is the one point factor like TBC uses and DOT’s using one factor at zero zero. And we end up saying and calling that ...

@mightymoe you nailed it. With that being above 1.000000 it is secant if memory serves me correctly. Now he needs to know if thats in a transverse me...

The scale factor. To project the data from ellipsoid to the plane aka mapping projection. Every surveyor needs to understand the limitations of differ...

If one man than a robot will be needed. Here is where you will get difference of opinions on brands. I like Trimble but the con is the reflector-less ...