I seem to remember LV in general having a CSF pretty close to 1. If the other job was fine, and also in SPCS grid (scale of 1), and in roughly the sam...

It will take time for NGS to push out a beta version of the conversion software. When they finally do that and work out the bugs, other software produ...

I can see setting control with GNSS, assuming some other work is done for vertical and to verify the observations, then everyone using that as project...

Unless your idea of "long term" is 5-10 years or more, I don't see a problem using an RTN. Here in the PNW, we're drifting at the rate of about 5mm/ye...

Agree with Jim, Web Mercator is just awful and I would never use it for serious work. Why not just use a conformal projection designed for the area yo...

At the NY conference last week I learned that NY has only two people operating NYSNET which most of the hardware is 20 years old, on expected 10 year ...

I’m not asking for special treatment by being able to get an out of state license with a 2 year degree vs having a 4 year as the locals are required. ...

Why did the apprenticeship paths go away? I think that if developed correctly would be another option to become licensed.$$$$$$$$$$$$$. Offload the ed...

The degree trash talking has already become tiresome. What the profession really needs is for these fist-shaking dinosaurs to retire and go away.Amen....

Yeah, the non-degreed attorney route requires multiple years of documented study - not work - under an attorney or a judge, with written examinations ...

I’m wondering how you could possibly arrive at that conclusion. Do you think that the only thing that makes a Surveyor a Professional is a degree? &#...

They added an associate degree path. Interesting, considering the Garden v. Frier decision is a Florida case... It would appear, absent any other info...

We've been seeing a trend of locators buying their own GNSS gear - which may range from survey-grade network rovers running off the RTN, to resource-g...

I’m just going to buy a R8-4 and use that as my base.Honestly, that's going to be the best option in the end anyways...running an old 1- or 2-constell...

When a monument is called off like that the surveyor is implying that it is not controlling for one reason or another – there are legitimate reasons f...

Agree on the first do not on the second assuming you are talking about a closed traverse. The day RTK tightens up my 6 station traverse is the day I r...

Really good to be aware of this. I had this happen to me, although it wasn't just a day's difference - I submitted an ALTA and the following week a re...

is ATR affected by prism selection, has anyone directly compared knock offs to the genuine counterpart,When running in passive mode, I can't tell any ...

I'm in meetings right now, but here's a good paper that's been floating around for a while:

Wouldn’t it be the same issue, only now there are multiple lines instead of multiple points?Not if the workflow is: open other job, export DXF, then l...