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Sounds like everything rotated if your still off the intended rotation #.?ÿ I'm with Lurker, never rotate your field data, ever.?ÿ In fact we don't r...
Question, did you ever speak to the PLS that was in charge of your earlier survey??ÿ ?ÿ wazoo gps unit in a heavily treed site 6 years ago does not so...
I'm all set on career goals, no more tests, no more licenses.?ÿ I am content there. Business-wise:?ÿ Worked about that same as last year about 50 per...
6+ % depending on the position.
I am dealing with this very issue right now.?ÿ Lots of old concreted monuments shown on a few surveys in the area with no 2 surveyors holding the same...
Some of our most often used long term control points are set in irrigation boxes.?ÿ
They are most commonly found at road intersections and are most commonly found to be out of place and/or no record of where it came from.
We find spikes all the time in WA, but never in ID.?ÿ
@holy-cow The schools don't teach drivers ed in my area, they leave that to the private businesses.?ÿ They don't teach about roundabouts in driver's e...
@thebionicman We haven't had any issues with ours. No complaints at all and it has increased productivity significantly in tough GPS areas.
We use Identrust.?ÿ In my states all digital signatures must be verifiable through a 3rd party and must be locked with no changes allowed once signed....
Not only the software, but the ability to use the software!
Sounds like an overall management/company issue to me.?ÿ Your Boss has a boss and he answer's to him, he/she might be in the same position you and and...
Around here existing easements are typically (not always) labeled as such on plats.?ÿ New easements are simply labeled as easements, such as 10' utili...
@bstrand?ÿ I did that just recently during my QA/QC of a plat.?ÿ Turns out that was a bad thing as I suddenly shrunk the buildable?ÿ area of the lot ...
@jmfleming Watch your line of sight with scanning total stations.?ÿ This bit us on a recent stockpile survey because we couldn't see to the bottom in ...
While not a typo it fits the topic.?ÿ I remember back in the 90s an engineer marked up a set of plans for drafting edits and put a big red circle arou...
Ben nailed it.?ÿ This is what you'll need to do.?ÿ In many instances it's simply easier and quicker and more efficient to get a new license for you ne...
Not without many headaches.?ÿ The only thing we convert between the 2 is surfaces and this is only because of most insane surface editing/processing c...