I do usually switch to semi active for that kind of stuff but for pinnings I use active because I don't want to be waiting 8 seconds for each measurem...

Writers hired by sites like Angi have a large portion of blame for the misinformation being distributed. And that's really weird to me because t...

Active or semi-active mode uses the ID-unique IR wavelength from the prism LEDs for tracking, so it shouldn't be getting locked on anything else shiny...

@ncsudirtman A couple of my coworkers topo with rapid shots which I think are 1 second. I was, and still am, a bit skeptical of the wisdom in that b...

The pipe looks big enough to be an old fence post that is now broken off. The two taller rebars are just witnessing the short one so they can find it...

If you're still seeing the same misclosure after re-running the conventional work, I'd be running a minimally constrained weighted least-squares adjus...

And which of those monuments do you take as perfect to say another is off? Exactly. We don't get to have it both ways. Best fitting to monuments, ...

Typically a road project would need traverse points every 200-300 meters, so that is maybe 20 traverse points between 5km check in points. That is a l...

Whether that holds true if you are only using the internal radios, I'm uncertain. It does. Radio manufacturers have no clue when or where their pr...

This is why TBC is far easier for processing linework when Access is the field software. Modify a code and tap F4 to recompute, and the linework is fi...

The heights you are getting from CRTN are California Orthometric Heights (COH), not NAVD88. Wait, are you saying that the CRTN does not broadcas...

Way to go! I hear HI is one of the toughest states. (I think we all need to travel there to buy you a round...)

If that is truly the verbiage of the easement, then technically it has a patent ambiguity. The descriptions places the easement's location but mentio...

I tried to translate everything to the BM -vertical only. But it wouldn’t go. I needed a horizontal aspect too, and I didn’t want to fudge the other d...

The thing that confuses us laymen is the term "based on." Grid north is calculated from coordinates and true north can then be calculated from grid no...

@mightymoe Bearings are calculated directly from coordinates. It's fine to run a conventional traverse and held a record SPCS azimuth between two p...

That statement is not terrible, but not great either. I can read between the lines to figure it out but it could be a lot more clear.It's far cleaner ...

@solomon-woldeyesus There's no way to "diagnose" the problem simply by looking at a spreadsheet of the deltas. Those are some large vertical discre...

Knowledge doesn't die. Perhaps not, but outdated software does become irrelevant and fade out from common usage.