The setting of CL monuments varies around here depending on the municipality. We set mons in accordance with state standards with zero concern for pa...

Are you required to prepare ownership maps for your DOT ROW plans? In the 2 states we work in these are required. It clears up all those issues in a...

I don't even like stepping in a ditch, let alone being 2000' feet below ground. Impressive, but not for this guy!!

I am with @norman-oklahoma on the point group hierarchy. Its bloated, dumb and inefficient IMO. Others use it successfully but we work just fine wit...

Enter it into TBC on grid, the toggle it back to ground and export those values for a check. We would probably never do it that was as there is no re...

Very long thread here! We determine and set our Trimble scale factor on day 1 of any project, we set it and forget it. Never had any SF issues whats...

@john-putnam We used to do that but then we ended with way more layers than we wanted. It certainly works but was more cumbersome for us.

We map each and every deed, survey, plat, etc.... in our project area. Each document gets it's own drawing with a name coincident with the file name ...

Considerably by a large factor. I would ask your questions in that market. Unfortunately we can't help you here. We charge adequate fees for prof...

We can't even answer the phone for less than $500. Im with @norman-oklahoma 100%. 7500 would be a steal. We shouldn't spend money on technology to...

@bstrand Agree 100% but none of our municipalities (with 1 exception) even understand accuracy standards. If they had them they wouldn't know what th...

I guess we're lucky. We work with 10 + municipalities and none of them even know what accuracy standards or have any reference to them in the contrac...

We use the POC code, see example below. It makes nice curves and if you have your figures constructed in 3d, you can get the elevation along any poin...

I'm not so sure any of these statements protect the surveyor. I would like to know of any actual court case in which these random statements were crit...

They were fairly prevalent around here in the 70s and 80s and we encounter them every now and again. We always shoot the angle point of the angle iro...

We're a trimble only company and dont need much if any support but our dealers have helped when needed..As far as equipment goes the R10 is fine but i...

There should be a seamless communication loop (without childish names) between the field and office with oversight by the PLS or department head. No...

Section 4.B The surveyor MUST be provided the following: Complete copies of the most recent title commitment or, if a title commitment is not availab...

Our work is also on ground. Its starts from Grid then we establish the project scale factor. Upload a .jxl template file into sync manager for each ...

Start a master spreadsheet where each project has it's own tab with all the pertinent information. I implemented this a decade ago and can't live wit...