Is your cad drawing all in one layer when you finish? If not, I'd be inclined to name codes similar to my layer name. CL EP TB TS FL etc. If you don't...

what kind of work?construction staking - greatopen site topo - greattraverse - poorIf you're jobs require few setups or setups with long duration and ...

I would not use least squares to best fit a compass and chain survey to modern determined corner positions. In my opinion the best way to retrace a co...

I would think "Best Fit" would generally refer to some kind of least squares approach to fitting a mathematical model to the real world. Examples woul...

We were asked to do the same thing for a survey we're doing. I politely told them we could use their certification because it didn't conform to the al...

Thanks.What State?

That is a danger for sure.

I can only say it works for me. I haven't met too many people with the skill set to do this job well. I'm not being conceited, I just know that it tak...

Basis of Distances:Lol. That's awesome, Loyal.

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> And I'm with you, I don't want basis of bearings statements legislated.> I agree. If someone goes to the effort to prepare a survey with a rep...

Next year we'll be surveying the tract between those two tracts a mile apart. Won't it be nice when we can piece it together using the surveys on eit...

Surveying along the surface relates to how we report distances. It is fairly insignificant to how we report bearings. Unless you are computing each be...

> According to the different GPS equipment I have used over the last 15 years the north pole seems to be moving.The change in earth tilt is extreme...

> Here's what we used on our drawings when going to a GPS system.> > BASIS OF BEARING> > ASTRONOMIC – DERIVED FROM GLOBAL POSITIONING S...

> Idaho Code (and several other State Laws) clearly require a line between two monuments to be labeled "Basis of Bearing". The purpose of that habi...

I can't say I've always done this, but the wording I've evolved over the years is something to the effect of:'Bearings based on a local grid having an...

> Shawn i appreciate your help, can you explain how to do the transformation from LDP to state plane in Carlson? It seems really simple in TBC, I j...