Any savvy operator willing to learn will be able to effectively use any of the gear/software from the major manufacturers out there. Some do certain t...

Do you guys usually note what paper size your survey should be printed on within the survey as a note? I think I used to do that when we had to pri...

@john-putnam Unitless scales are great. My impression is that surveyors shun them because they are associated with GIS maps, and (civil) engineers s...

I honestly think it has been about 8-10 years since I both printed out and used a scale measurement on a map to obtain a distance. I really, really h...

TikTok is such a powerful medium "Powerful" only in the sense that a whole lot of folks watch it. It's just television, but even less useful from a...

That said, if the reason for this action was to increase the passing rate, I agree, it was a bad decision. Unfortunately this seems to be the trend...

@rover83 Help me out. What is a mean geodetic bearing and how is it used? (from the BLM Manual of Surveying Instructions)

My opinion (Which is not really based on a heavy scientific look) No kidding.

The NGS tool INVERSE/FORWARD will work if you want an open-source way to compute your bearings.The inverse tool in TBC will return forward/backward/me...

Should I ask for them to give me the local or global LLH? Global, most likely, unless there's some goofy stuff going on in the project. A pro...

Surveyors have been dismissed and downgraded by title companies, lawyers and realtors for so long people just think they don't do anything except char...

so i thought well, now that the tech is here, why not use it, I know trimble has a solution for this, but I dont think I can justify the cost involved...

@gripszThanks, I hadn't read a good word salad + random capitalization post in a while.

@tonyduky Best way is to modify existing or write from scratch to create your own. Other option is to hire a developer - Trimble used to have a cus...

For some reason, I cringe when I see a reference to the "one" quarter corner. Maybe they don't want it to be confused with the two quarter corner. ...

For the record, I'm not saying that licensees should not be filing if they find a material discrepancy between existing record and recovered monuments...

@bill93 employing the formula that you mention assumes that the height of the instrument and target are the same when not entering both the target hei...

Good luck with that...post-flight HVs are tough when there aren't many identifiable features.

Unless data is entered into the total station or data collector to the contrary, the software will assume the height of the instrument above it's mark...

It's a guarantee that when someone says "Oh, we don't need vertical for this project", and we decide to not take the extra ten seconds to measure, inp...