Dealing with the bureaucracy of a large governmental agency is one of the most mind-bogglingly silly things I've ever done. For a while I worked for a...

Depending upon where I'm doing a survey, I'll either use a local (city/county) benchmark from their records or I'll find some nearby NGS monuments to ...

I have encounter a few architects that haven't caused me any grief, but they are few and far between. I have, of course, dealt with the architect that...

jim.cox, post: 362720, member: 93 wrote: Mud, mud, glorious mudThere's nothing quite like itFor cooling the blood Setting pile positions today after t...

GeeOddMike, post: 362392, member: 677 wrote: FWIW, the NGS database includes a large number of intersection stations: water towers, radio masts, stack...

paden cash, post: 361288, member: 20 wrote: Shocker: None of us are gettin' out of here alive! :woot: Well, with a very few exceptions, we were all...

This is an issue that is getting a lot of attention here in California. And a lot of responsibility is being put on the local agency (i.e. County) to ...

Other than for some exercises in my classes in college, I've only used triangulation to get remote heights of inaccessible things (tops of towers, usu...

Holy Cow, post: 360943, member: 50 wrote: Yup. Words can really change. Back in 1978 my mother noted the rather bright-colored shirt I was wearing t...

BajaOR, post: 360770, member: 9139 wrote: My dad would uses "dope" in the same context as the website, as a replacement for "information" or for "reco...