What is the context for this question? In general, the retaining wall itself is considered the improvement, not the natural material that it is holdin...

I also use it for monitoring projects. Best program by far for estimating how many observations you're going to need for a particular tolerance - or f...

<div>I would opt for the additional channels of the R12i personally, but I have heard that the 780 performs comparably with the 12i in typical G...

I'm curious how the jobs are being combined - are the points being copied between jobs rather than linking? Access and TBC are good about not crossing...

This is one of the rare times I’m going to have to disagree with you, Rover. In my experience I would have a conversation with the LS over the researc...

The only thing I really NEEDED immediately was a plotter, which I bought for $1200 after I got paid for my first few jobs. Heck, these days for most j...

Oof. Sounds like those yahoos aren't just talking about translate/rotate with office calcs, but doing their own calcs and then translating/rotating. ...

I thought if you checked the box for “compute station elevation” it would be putting the elevation on the point and not the scope.It will compute the ...

So Trimble will not let you turn to a point in 2D? That would be annoying.It absolutely does, and has for a long time.

I don’t work on the office side of things, what is the reason you would want to exclude the setup point if it’s in the area of the topo? Might be real...

I do this routinely so I can include the resected point in my terrain model. A zero HI leaves a lump in the fabric.I use a CP_RESECT code and it gets ...

Now it’s just the calcs that cause annoyance, I wish turn to had an option to turn off vertical like the GPS search…That's what this is for:

SurvCE gives you the option of zeroing on the initial control shot, which is what I do.That's how Access operates - the first observed point is the "F...

OK, I'll bite. Why not just...start surveying after completing the resection?

The property in debate is within a flood map with an effective date of March, 2009. If the datum is NAVD88, the dates don't matter. The hybrid geoid m...

When working in the current realization of the NSRS, use the current geoid.It's that simple. So if you are working in NAD83(2011), you should be using...

Simply publishing coordinates isn’t going to do it over time. The coordinates will have to be constantly updated, guess who’s going to do that.The "co...

Big Corporation flexing it’s muscleMuscle doesn't reduce my liability or even get my attention. And I don't care how big a client is. On the other han...

Is the OS up to date on the "bad" controller? Having an outdated version of windows can mess with the install process.

@bill93 This is an excellent point...I've worked on quite a few projects where municipalities, utilities, and/or contractors blew out enough primary ...