JB and Larry are correct:good:

I used a Nikon Nivo with pretty good success in a similar way. No doubt that if someone actually developed a tiny total station to fix on a pole under...

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I think you can use it through windows, but I'm pretty sure Carlson doesn't have any "app" for the mic. 😉

stunning

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All you have to do is watch what a shot on a power pole along the back of a ditch bank does to a topo when it triangulates over to the centerline and ...

I remember the last job I did without breaklines. It took almost as much time to get the map to look right as it did to shoot the points. That was in ...

Leica is very cool like that, Jim. My old Topcon allows for adjustment so that the instrument centers coincident with the crosshair. The only time it ...

And I'm finding that maps do a rather poor job of conveying intent. Maps certainly depict some things much better than a written description, but a de...

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Could be that your email server is flagging it as spam? I used to miss some pretty important emails back before I started religiously checking my spam...

looks like a re-badged Nikon Nivo.

yep... you're right.

Is it a Type I or Type II, Jeff?

Dave,I definitely need to get with you. I would love to give a traverse calculation a go on one.There was an old surveyor here locally that did incred...

"Now on to logs? no.."I suppose I'm becoming predictable, Jerry. I just pulled Dad's old Basic Mathematical Tables book out yesterday. I was taught th...

That was really cool, Rich.

From what I understand the Curta and Monroe mechanical calculators could do basic add, subtract, multiply and divide (which is pretty cool). Were ther...

As to precision, I was thinking the same thing. Just outside of practicality for traverse calculations. 5 places might have really made it a game chan...