"I am at a loss trying to figure out how anybody would possibly be using digital imagery from Google Maps or any other similar imagery providers."<...

I would avoid 1/2-ton trucks for survey work. When loaded with standard kit, my trucks have always tended to weigh in at the upper limits of 1/2-ton ...

Just a quick note on C3D, points and projections. First, point can be entered as local N / E or Grid N / Grid E. A point can have different local a...

I'm not really sure how she lost Keith. Its not like he was more than 300 feet from her. I'll give her that it was dusk. I think she left him with ...

I was running a project in Duck Valley, ID back in the 1995 were we had a lost surveyor situation. The terrain was not very rugged, but it made up fo...

I don't think the RTK base determines a single correction based on all of its available constellations. I think the corrections are computed and tran...

I have a pair of Danner's that I really like. Not cheap but comfortable, breathable & waterproof.

Zelle seems to work well. It is run by a consortium of banks and credit unions and seems to be a simplified system for requesting and sending ACH. ...

Thanks for the info Jim. That really seems match my experience with VRS and Leica hardware. Talk about proprietary.

I was fortunate enough to have been hire by a visionary when I first got out of university. He hired two freshly graduated LSITs with the idea to tra...

I realize that both systems both systems use multiple CORS to best model the atmospheric, ionospheric and other corrections needed to extend the depen...

Sonic, Whatever you do, do not bastardize the existing control by applying a site calibration. As others have said, NAD83(HARN) is just a realization ...

Okay, Spot the MS60 & GS18 from this week's job sites. I made it out of the site with the UTV just in time. It was over 20c on Tuesday when the...

It looks like the term has multiple definitions depending on who is using it. Somehow, I had never heard the engineering use until I started doing so...

Thanks Jim