I've read others say they plan on working till noon on the day of their funeral. Sounds about right. To the OP, I think Sergeant Schultz is on to some...

OPUS is not as authoritative as we would all like for it to be. A few years ago I tested a receiver on a pedestal for a couple of weeks and found that...

ashton, post: 435503, member: 422 wrote: Thanks for answering the second part of my question. How about the first part: if a deed doesn't directly men...

flyin solo, post: 435077, member: 8089 wrote: city services includes such things as fire, police, and EMS- not just pipes for various fluids.There is ...

Monte, post: 435070, member: 11913 wrote: I do think I heard on the news the other day that the state reps are going to take a look at this here in TX...

Peter Ehlert, post: 435065, member: 60 wrote: so just because a property is within the political boundary The City (TAXPAYERS) has to provide services...

Paul in PA, post: 435048, member: 236 wrote: "Local Government Code 232.0031 says that a county may not impose a higher standard of streets or roads i...

Texas State Plane zones are all Lambert 2 parallel projections. I use oblique stereographic (I think that's the one) pretty often. It's the default pr...

From what I read, the OPUS result will be time dependent and then there will be the IFV (intra-frame velocity) version which sounds similar to HTDP fo...

That's interesting for sure. I feel like I'm pretty savvy as a surveyor who uses geodesy while not being a geodesist. I understand the approach to the...

Andy Bruner, post: 433461, member: 1123 wrote: I was taught from the beginning that erasures in a field book were a big no-no. Strikethroughs and cor...

I can't erase in my rite in rain books. Pretty annoying. Good books otherwise.

Kris Morgan, post: 432878, member: 29 wrote: Also, my wife wants to know if you ever got the brick from the Elementary School they tore down. :)I am ...

Kris Morgan, post: 432705, member: 29 wrote: If you do all the field and office time, then your time is intrinsic, or internal because you're not pay...

Bill93, post: 432471, member: 87 wrote: That's slightly confusing because the transformation itself doesn't involve least squares. They probably use l...

For a localization (or calibration) it's actually even deeper than a projection definition. That's only half of it. There is also the transformation t...

Kris Morgan, post: 432464, member: 29 wrote: While it may be valuable, it is also intrinsic as a cost and can be easily manipulated to make numbers wo...

Mighty,You are correct. This isn't "new". I don't know the exact year that Helmert developed his transformation process, but I suspect over 100 years ...

Just to clarify what Nate was saying.A localization (or Trimble calibration) is a comparison of two grid systems (2D or 3D Cartesian coordinates). The...

As you mentioned, you are solo. Office work is not being passed off to a subordinate technician. It's being done by the professional. This is valuable...