BushAxe, post: 408937, member: 11897 wrote: I have been in the surveying business for 30 years. What I find attractive and satisfying about this line ...

If things are left alone I believe the law of supply and demand will increase our income and in turn make our profession more attractive.There may be ...

Chris Duncan, post: 408528, member: 7540 wrote: Yea. We mostly traverse boundary surveys. So the robotics wouldn't be used enough to justify the extra...

paden cash, post: 408625, member: 20 wrote: Wild hogs can climb trees, too. We ran this one up a walnut tree and it was pissed. I've never heard a h...

Glenn Breysacher, post: 408547, member: 188 wrote: Shawn,No matter how irrational the property owner might have been, it still would LOOK horrible, ev...

RE Coyotes. A few years ago, I was set up on the side of a quiet county road with a wide cleared right-of-way. A coyote comes trotting across the road...

That's really big.I've crossed a couple of coyotes in the field. They always just pass by without incident.

lmbrls, post: 408482, member: 6823 wrote: To quote my late Father, "the right of way never did a dead man any good". These incidents happen so rarely ...

Every new law or regulation is a restriction on freedom of some sort. Every one.

Mandated surveys are my very least favorite survey work. I prefer doing work that my clients want and will (hopefully) appreciate. I get emails from N...

I think that Trimble's "calibration" is synonymous, but would appreciate any definitive evidence to the contrary.

I get the concerns about crashing an SUV full of survey equipment. The problem I have with trucks, especially today's trucks, is that you can't get to...

billvhill, post: 407678, member: 8398 wrote: I quit at about 20 feetI don't like putting Christmas lights on our two story house. Just a little too fa...

Mark Silver, post: 407459, member: 1087 wrote: Holy C. r. a. p![ link to video ]This is about the scariest thing I have ever seen in my life!What are ...

Here is a link (on Javad's website) to the paper I wrote about my experience:

I did a similar experiment a year or so ago. It was not nearly so rigorous. I was looking for transformation parameters for our city control network t...

TJE Yogi, post: 407334, member: 963 wrote: Conrad and Shawn, great discussion about localizations. I understand what both of you are talking about. Bu...

Localizations do one of two tasks:1. Create a Projection (1-point localization)2. Perform a Transformation between two planar coordinate systems (1 or...