I'm always amazed by the work of Milard H. Hackney, a surveyor in East Texas from the 1930s-1970s. He listed his bearings to the arc second and distan...

Pretty sure the guts of the bantam is a parani radio. Perhaps I'm mistaken.

None needed...Did you witness the tree?

Mark is right. Been a couple years since my last stop and go session but we had a very reliable system. We set a point inside 1000 feet from the base ...

Yeah, I thought the same thing, but Javad's doesn't start until it is stationary (no velocity) and plumb, and it waits for a user specified amount of ...

I'd stall. Sounds like they have too much time on their hands.

That doesn't look like the same outside I was in today...Experimenting with the view through the optical plumb...I joked with Dad that the Government ...

I'm in full agreement with all of the above. Likely she knows her CAD work is not precise enough to work from. My experience is also that contractors ...

Ah. Ok thanks for explaining that guys.

How does that work?

> Usually, the point of a LDP is to simulate ground distances and swing the bearings in the project area to better match true north. Much like in a...

>My fear is that the younger generation of surveyors will know how to take coordinates out to 8 places, but will not have much of a clue how to sur...

This is the metadata for the job I'm finishing now. I put it right under the North arrow on my plat. All (or in some cases several) prominent points a...

through a little trial and error and with the help of Loyal, I was able to create an LDP that mimicked a "modified State Plane Coordinate System" here...

amenamen

I love technology and the ability to transfer documents at the speed of light and carry my company's entire catalogue of work for the last thirty year...

I just started playing with skydrive. It's a Microsoft product and may be supported in windows mobile. I use it on my android phone and home computer....

> And, I suppose later this weekend, I should write a short note and description of my holdings. Everyone will find it amusing, depressing, and if ...

Mark Silver at igage in salt lake. He's got as many quads as usgs.