@shelby-h-griggs-pls   You're probably aware, but the next State Plane will use single-parallel Lambert instead of two-parallel Lambert, so any...

I should add that this assumes the underlying datum is the same between the SPCS and LDP. If they are different datums an extra step would be needed t...

@jaro There won't be an issue with using simple scale rotate and translate to go from one system to the other on smallish projects. It can become an ...

@jaro No. Each LDP zone will have it's own grid origin. The newly revised five zones will match previous grid north from what I understand.  &n...

I'm part of the Task Force on the Texas Society of Professional Surveyors working with other recognized stakeholders in the State to determine what th...

@bstrand I would agree with you there. I would not compromise on performing my jobs correctly. That would be unethical and thus a deal breaker, and I...

@holy-cow Nor would I. I recommend keeping the main thing the main thing. Get the work, get the work done, get paid. All of the rest (including pride...

@holy-cow I recall a couple of years ago I took a job surveying about a hundred acres with a house on it. I pulled up with my trailer in tow carrying...

I think Holy Cow is probably on to something. I would look at how many open jobs you have, ones that you've started while also starting others before ...

I quit participating on the field crew (I think that's the name) on Facebook because of this kind of willful ignorance. It's frustrating to be sure.

I was brought up around solar observations. Dad wrote a basic program back in the 80's to reduce them. We hand entered the programs in our HP calculat...

As Nate suggests, with the release of the new Triumph-3, I would say that the Triumph-3 is the ultimate base station for the Triumph-LS RTK rover. The...

That is?ÿsomething I guess, but clearly not enough to reproduce.

@leegreen ?ÿJust to be clear - did the local surveyor provide any metadata regarding his coordinate system?

@stlsurveyor As long as the metadata is there, I have no issue with it.   There are multiple ways to deal with grid to ground conversions. All...

@leegreen I agree, Lee. This is not a simple miscommunication, unless the surveyor provided clear metadata stating the coordinates were scaled by som...

@aliquot No, it's not like using there instead of their. The surveyor stated that his survey is related to a particular coordinate system and he is n...

@mike-marks The suggestion that SPCS was intended to be no better than 1 in 10,000 is not an accurate statement. The original zones were designed suc...

@thebionicman I'm heavily involved in the LDP being developed in the State of Texas. NGS isn't in favor of a three layer approach. Only two layers ar...