Utah no longer allows experience only. 2 year degree, clock ticking on 4 year degree as program just starting this fall. Once they graduate a 4 year...

Best tool is a shovel. Pin em down right behind the head, then step on the shovel. Head comes right off. Taught to me by my dad, I'll pass it down ...

$125/hr. Don't do hardly any SO these days (for other than myself). Rate shows the big squeeze. That's what I charged ten years ago. Since the dol...

I've been licensed 6 years now and the only stamp I have is a CAD file. I probably should get one. I do have a PE stamp but rarely use it.

Horse Hockey!A complete education in surveying to a B.S. degree covers a lot of territory including many things not even related to surveying. At lea...

Sometimes the landowners and local government don't care enough to expend resources to straighten things like this out. In the end, at least in my st...

I've seen a situation where the original ROW is all simple curves. Then a surveyor got the track centerline data from the railroad maps (which of cou...

LDP's are a plane projection same as a SPC. They are just set up so as to make north closer to real north and the grid distances closer to ground dis...

Still have my top of instrument mounted AGA.Out by Point of the Mountain.I wonder if the baseline survived all the new freeway construction? I checke...

Hopefully this will encourage better compliance with the corner record statute. Certainly the easy and free access to other records will be a great b...

Javad and LightSquared - GordonWorked fine for me!

Base BatteryI used a regular car sized marine gell cell. Hook both the radio and receiver to it. I've never run it clear down, probably would run th...

GSDMHas your GSDM system been directly ported to any of the standard field computers like Trimble, Topcon, etc?You probably have a good thing but it n...

Served me well, so far at least!

I believe the FCC guy that approved this deal is an old college buddy of the president. There is probably some similar connection to the money behind...

Although I've wanted to buy newer equipment than the ancient Trimble 4700's I've used since 1999 maybe it will turn out OK. Suppose I'll use them unt...

SP Coordinates, maybe not so obsoleteI'll give you some sense of humor. Taking the state plane would work also but how many times would you need to l...

SP Coordinates, maybe not so obsoleteWalking is a functional way to get from New York to San Diego but not many folks do it all the time. I'd take a ...

SP Coordinates, maybe not so obsoleteEver see this equation?X^2 + Y^2 + Z^2 = D^2It's the 3D version of Pythagoras Theorem. Since the earth is about ...