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Common Mistakes to Avoid in Land Surveyor Calculations: A Guide for Professionals

 

Land surveying is a vital task in the real estate and construction industries. Surveyors play an essential role in defining property boundaries, determining land areas, and calculating volumes with precision. Even the smallest miscalculation in sur

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SurveyingX Pro the best mobile app for land surveying

 

SurveyingX is Mobile App For Land Surveyor
to accomplish surveying tasks, whether field or office, easily and effectively

Download the App for Android >>>>>  SurveyingX Pro

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Surveyor Bookmarklets For On-The-Fly Posts to Community From Anywhere

Let's work smarter, not harder. How many of you have ever used  a bookmarklet?

How can a Bookmarklet Be Helpful to a Land Surveyor?

A bookmarklet is like a tiny wizard that lives in your browser's bookmarks bar and can magically transform any web

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Limited special review 1968

Hi 

I'm new to the site so hope I'm on the right forum for this type of question.

I'm working on a legal case and wonder if anyone can help. During a Limited Special Review in 1970 in England the parish council trying to get the status of a way changed

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Attachment tripod screw size in Sokkisha TS20

Hi, 

I've just bought an old Sokkisha TS20 theodolite, and I realize that the attachment screw size is not the usual 5/8", but much bigger, somewhere around 1 3/8" (I measured about 34 mm). Does anybody know if there's a tripod with that size of screw

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What will be the best procedure to check column verticality

 

I am on a job site where I am building a facility.

I have to layout pile, anchor bolt and check the pipe rack column to see if is vertical.

Is someone can tell me what will be the best procedure using Trimble Vx Robotic Total Station on the field to c

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Traverse Adjustment Using SurveyingX App

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms55V9lHa3E&t=123s 

Download the app for Android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Surveying360.SurveyingX

 

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Traverse Adjustment Using SurveyingX Mobile App

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms55V9lHa3E&t=123s

 

Download the app for Android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Surveying360.SurveyingX

 

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Trimble 5700 Not Tracking Satellites

Hi AllHi all I recently bought a Trimble 5700 on ebay auction. I have updated the equipment to recommend v 2.32 for the GPS week roll over. However the system is not tracking any satellites when I hook up the Zephyr Geodetic antenna.Any one with a

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What are some benefits of BIM in modern construction

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is rising as an innovative way to manage projects, BIM expedites collaboration within stakeholders, which will lead to improved profitability, reduced costs, better time management, and improved client relationship

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Overlaying CAD drawing to Google Earth

Hello all

It has been a while since I posted as i have been out of the survey game for some time but have recently got back in.

I was hoping the community could help shed some light on how to overlay a CAD drawing of a road onto Google Earth.

I am tryin

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Orange County Chapter - California Land Surveyors Association - CA LS Exam Review Class

Good afternoon everyone,

 

Trying to get licensed in California or just want to brush up on topics not encountered everyday? Sign up for our 2021 OC-CLSA LS Review Class! 

This opportunity only comes around once a year. These excellent instructors have

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Trimble RTX CenterPoint

Hello everybody!

Does anyone have an experience of RTX used for landsurvey purpose? This technologie makes me really curious but it's hard to find comeback online...

Have a great day!

 

Simon, Surveyor for aeronautical purpose.

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Finding Jobs in File System on CC80 smart tablet

Hi all, Im trying to locate a job that was deleted from a project.  Does anyone know where jobs and their measurements are stored on the local machine? iCON / Leica / cc80 / smart tablet

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Seeking Professional Surveying Relationships to Earn NCEES/Board Referrals

I would like to apply for licensure as a professional land surveyor in Nevad and California.

Recently, I received a BAS degree in geomatics/land surveying (this is my second undergraduate degree), passed the FS exam, passed the PS exam, and became reg

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Phishing, Scams, Cyber Security, & Robocalls

I just posted an article about this on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/wth-why-heck-am-i-getting-phishing-scam-emails-maxwell-pe-pls

 

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Introduction to Roads, Road Law Expert

Paul J. Alfano is a recognized authority on New Hampshire road law, including paper streets, discontinuances and ownership disputes.  He has written leading articles on the subject and delivered numerous lectures over the past thirty years, and maint

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Quiz for Surveyors New to the Field

Rob Migliore‎ shared this with us.... let's see how well you do...

I sometimes give an easy quiz to potential field and CAD people during their interview, just to get an understanding of their experience.
I wonder how many of you can answer these ques

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How many feet in a Square Acre of Land?

A question that I often receive from new land surveyors is  How many feet is a square acre?

I am not quite sure why this stumps so many, but this is basically what I tell them with they ask.

A square enclosing one acre is approximately 69.57 yards, or

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RTKlib PPP-kinematic

Hi,

Does anyone have experience with RTKlib PPP-kinematic processing?

I would love to discuss and learn more about it.

I would be interested in surveying tree locations on a very remote block of land with no nearby CORS.

It doesn't have to be kinematic,

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