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Party Chief

Find Your Android By Remote Control SMS

How many of us have lost our phone on a jobsite. When surveying, it can be hard to keep track of all of our gadgets. This tip will help you find your Android phone using SMS remote control even if your phone ringer is turned off. Thanks for this t

Started by Jaybird

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Party Chief

Add Location-Based Alerts to Your Laptop with Geopad

For land surveyors, a location-aware and location-based notepad could be a tremendously valuable tool to keep in the toolbox.

Big thanks to Labnol for tipping us off to this.

Location-based reminders are now integrated into your iPhone and iPad while

Started by Jaybird

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Survey Legend

Identify Trees With Leafsnap App

Now this is a PERFECT application for land surveyors everywhere. Identify trees while surveying, using just your phone!!

Leafsnap is a new free app that identifies trees.

The next time you are out on a survey identifying trees, take a shot of a lea

Started by ⚡Survenator⌁

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Party Chief

New Useful Android Apps for Surveyors

Sync Your Phone Files Wirelessly

Dropspot Lite can be a surveyor's best friend. It is an app for Android Phones which allows you to quickly sync files between your computer and cell phone, wirelessly! This could, for example come in handy for Surve

Started by Jaybird

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Party Chief

Guide to Finding Old Newspaper Articles Online

Land surveyors are (or should be) keen researchers and artists of meshing the past with the present. Without a clear understanding of the past, how would we know what we are looking at? Below is a helpful guide to finding archived newspaper artic

Started by Jaybird

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GEO Ambassador

Make Firefox Browser Blazing Fast With These 7 Hacks

Time is money. And if you are using an old and outdated browser like Internet Explorer, you are wasting your time money. Get Firefox or Google Chrome and you will see a world of difference. Out of the box Firefoxis still much faster and useful tha

Started by Skip Farrow

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Party Chief

Instantly Translate Google Talk Chat Into Other Languages

Hey Surveyors...are you using Google Talk for messaging and chat? If so, I bet you didn't know that you could chat with other surveyors in their native language by adding translation bots! Here's how you do it. Pick the languages that you'd like

Started by Jaybird

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GEO Ambassador

Find Out if Flooding Will Effect Your Surveying

We all know that flooding could be a source of major concern when trying to get a survey completed. Use this tool to find areas prone to flooding before heading out to the jobsite!

xino.php?stwaccesskeyid=05a7d7d6927480b&stwembed=1&inside=1&stwsize=lg&stwurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.floodmap.net

FloodMap – In the unfortunate case of a flood, you will want to know

Started by Skip Farrow

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GEO Ambassador

Hacking GPS Guide and Download

Guide to Hacking GPS

* This is the "user manual" that didn't come with any of the 30 million GPS receivers currently in use, showing readers how to modify, tweak, and hack their GPS to take it to new levels!
* Crazy-cool modifications include exploiti

Started by Skip Farrow

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Survey Legend

How To Speed Up Your Firefox Browser

Are You Using Firefox Browser?

If you're still using Internet Explorer, its been covered before why this is not such a good idea. If I were you, I'd switch to Firefox or Google Chrome. If you're using firefox, here's a quick trick for broadband sur

Started by ⚡Survenator⌁

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Google Sketch Up

Google SketchUp Pro is a simple but powerful tool for exploring and presenting your ideas in 3D. SketchUp Pro is everything traditional CAD software isn't -- quick to learn and intuitive to use.

Create 3D Models
Using SketchUp Pro, you can create 3D m

Started by Ty Olinghouse

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Party Chief

The Ultimate Job Hunting Tool: Google Maps Extractor

Picture this Job Hunting Scenario,Surveyors:

You're looking for a job at a local land surveying firm and decide to head over to Google Maps to see those firms in your surrounding area. You search for "Your City" +land surveyors and hit search. All

Started by Jaybird

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Free and inexpensive Cogo Software

http://wareseeker.com/free-cogo/

Copan 09.11 brings users a professional yet easy-to-use geomatics engineering tool for computing and managing plane land survey coordinates. Designed for land surveyors, geodetic engineers, professionals and students

Started by Ty Olinghouse

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Party Chief

101 Most Useful Websites on the Web

From our buddies over at Labnol (digital inspiration blog), I am passing on the 101 most useful websites on the web today. These websites will make your surveying life easier. Take a look!

Started by Jaybird

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Party Chief

Coordinate Calculator Saves Times

A couple of days ago, we covered aSurveying field hack that uses aGreasemonkey script for Firefox that adds geo coordinates to the top of Google Maps. Today, I ran across a post fromGlobal Surveyors Blog that announced a Co-Ordinate Calculator that

Started by Jaybird

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Party Chief

OCR Convert PDF to TXT for Sharing Parts of Documents

Surveyors, sharing your best manuals and help guides in PDF form is one thing which is very important for the future of land surveying as we know it. However, there often comes a time when you are trying to support a fellow surveyor and you don't wan

Started by Jaybird

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Party Chief

Free Hard Disk Utilities for Surveyors

A nice list of hard disk utilities for when your computer craps out. Enjoy Surveyors!

Started by Jaybird

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GEO Ambassador

Historical Markers Database is Great Tool for Surveyors

I recently ran across the Historical Markers Databade (HMDB) and thought it would be a great tool for surveyors to use and contribute to.HMDB is a voluntary effort to document and catalog historical markers, mainly from the US and Canada (a few marke

Started by Skip Farrow

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Surveyors Online Toolbox

Sync Your Phone Files Wirelessly

Land surveyors are (or should be) keen researchers and artists of meshing the past with the present. Without a clear understanding of the past, how would we know what we are looking at? Below is a helpful guide to finding archived newspaper artic

Picture this Job Hunting Scenario,Surveyors:

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Note: this page is for Futurist members who support the community and help us sustain financially.Please subscribe to unlock this page an almost 100 surveyor tools.

Note: this page is for Futurist members who support the community and help us sustain financially.Please subscribe to unlock this page an almost 100 surveyor tools.