Regarding Localizations (or Calibrations if you're a Trimble guy), I feel a lot like Tom Selleck at the end of Quigley Down Under, where he says somet...

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red flag and all, Teach. 🙂

MightyMoe, post: 357108, member: 700 wrote: I find much less confusion if the coordinates are simply multiplied. The JAVAD sequence shown above is a t...

I'll take an honest ignorant man over a smart dishonest man any day of the week. A survey business must be operated on trust. You violate that trust a...

'Account for distortions' would probably be a better way of looking at it. Every projection type has distortions. Localization can minimize the magnit...

Scott Zelenak, post: 357033, member: 327 wrote: If the localization carries all the distortions of the SPC system how can it be affine?I grasp the LDP...

I suppose a user could create localization Metadata. Before we started using LDPs, we were basically using affine transformations of SPC to deliver gr...

Scott Zelenak, post: 357030, member: 327 wrote: Seems the simple definition of the localization is that it is a tangent plane system connected to SPC ...

A localization and a LDP vary in some significant ways. A LDP is a projection. Each grid coordinate equals a unique geographic coordinate on the Earth...

In Javad's software, and this is true for most, but not at all, you have several choices for projections. In all cases for Javad, the points are store...

I've certified to other work. The former investigator for the TBPLS didn't agree when I asked him about it. But I feel pretty good about the clear lan...

There are also 8' bubbles out there. They will drive you crazy if you aren't braced a bit, but they are sensitive. Good to see you are still kicking S...

I would definitely object to the legal definition of "image". Collection of sound waves and electromagnetic waves. Pretty dang nebulous. That would in...

Zoidberg, post: 355318, member: 8841 wrote: It doesn't have that. Party pooper.

I'm guessing servo driven digital level with "power search". And why not, all the tech is there and has been for a long time. Might be cool, but there...

I think Mark is saying it would be nice to have the option to call 811 (no problem) and a separate option for the surveyor to obtain utility plans (a ...

Jim Frame, post: 354757, member: 10 wrote: I've called in many dozens of tickets for the installation of driven-rod geodetic marks. We generally go 4...

In Texas they ask if you are going to be digging in excess of 24" (if I recall correctly). The iron rods we set are usually 24" in length and we count...

hgman, post: 354743, member: 8980 wrote: We've had horrible response from NC 811 when we've use it. There are times where I know for a fact there are...