Another good one from a local guy:Basis of Bearing: WGS 84. The same guy will do another survey in the section next to it with a common line, and ac...

Now you get to get bytched at for leaving all that paper product in your trousers, thus making a bigger mess in the dryer filter that Mrs Cow will hav...

That's the fun part for certain. It just gets a bit tougher as you near the 6th decade and the belt, jeans & shirts keep shrinking. Even that da...

> Absolutely not! The maps are the definitive, regardless of ground elevation or anything else...Agreed. The map is as etched in stone similarly t...

Cool project and great pix.I'll add that my favorite pix included the golf bag as your stake bag. That's all I've used for over 20 yrs. You buy your...

Yes it is Jim, but sometimes it is still like pulling teeth to get an actual inked seal from anybody. CAD files, pdf's, coordinate files never a prob...

Thanks!Back in the old days when it seemed I was dipping more manholes than surveying them in I devised a fool proof cheap method. It wasn't just the...

I love the built in oxymoron - GPS & fun.All you really have to do is check things against the county GIS map. Nothing like a neutral party verif...

Dip Needles, dowsing & hockey pucksNo controversy about dowsing with me. It does work. I keep a couple bent coat hangers, with some McDonald str...

Old SurVEys made available to publicAs noble of a program that sounds, the issue would be administrative. Most of us want other surveyors to use our ...

He's just napping, right. Don't they say "let sleeping bears lie".Around here with all the rain we've been getting, coupled with Mr Snake getting rea...

I believe that is addressed in the standard agreement that each society signs. The stipulation is that the members resident state is the only one nee...

And the next guy (or gal) ....There are a couple guys around here who sometimes will use 2" alum caps on the 5/8" rod, with all the info, but they nev...

I suppose a lot of it depends on the kind of work you expect him to do. Boundary, topo's, aerial & mapping control, construction, industrial, dea...

> .... beat that test like it owes you moneyI love that Moe. Sums things up quite well

AZ (APLS is our society) is also on board with 100% participation in NSPS. The NSPS fee is then $40/yr. Pretty good deal IMHO.I think there are only...