When the platting tech reviewing your plat comes back and says your boundary doesn't close, by 0.004', or less than the width of the dimple, what are...

Being a Big Bang Theory fan I've got to go with 73, which is the 21st prime number and it's reverse 37 is the 12th prime number. In binary code it's w...

Amen to that. I was able with that database of past work to drop in just about anywhere with search coordinates dialed in to within 1-2' before even h...

@mightymoe I did hundreds if not thousands of those when I took over at my last utility job. The gentleman I took over for did everything 5000,5000 an...

Seems to be a standard practice to scale SP to ground, rotate everything to some BOB, truncate nothing, document nothing, localize, localize and loca...

Interesting article in the WP this morning regarding Starlink. SpaceX going public here shortly, anybody have any thoughts on that? Seems they have th...

Wendell, whatever the outcome, I just have to say how valuable this forum has been to me. I stumbled upon it too long a go when I was still a wet behi...

Just used mine yesterday to bust through the pavement and a foot and half of hard packed gravel to recover a section and quarter corner that were pave...

@sgorm8989 Paul hasn't been around here in quite some time. This thread is 12 years old. You can open a rinex file as a .txt file and play around with...

I can't see any reason to have a meandering boundary along the north lot lines unless it was intended to follow the creek which would form a natural m...

Over the years I've had a number of close encounters with both Grizzly and Black bears and up to a point I really didn't consider Blackies to be much ...

Thinking back to my spud bar days trying to break through a frozen hard packed gravel road, I'd kiss the tuchus of the man that invented that rotohamm...

The really fun ones are the back corners that fall at the intersection of 4 head high wood privacy fences ready to fall over and intersect so that the...

Client leaves out a key detail like that, I'm asking myself what else did they not divulge.

Usually when I see reference monuments or RMs, they're random, more like formal control points for which DOT or whoever has published the coordinates ...

Boundary Line Agreement?

Those are essentially unicorn conditions, not the 95% of the areas I work in. Mr. Moe is in Big Sky country. I nearly always have to deal with multipa...

I think I've been setting corners with RTK for at least 20 plus years. Even when I'm using a total station, the control that I'm occupying with it, I ...