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Field Hack: Update Status from Your Phone for LSU, Twitter, Facebook and Myspace Simultaneously

Posted by jbirds.co for Surveyors on March 7, 2010 at 5:35pm

Send in photos or videos by phone or email

When you joined Land Surveyors United, a unique Add By Phone email address is assigned to your profile on that network. You can use this address to send photos or videos, one at a time, to your LSU. If Twitter
is enabled on your profile, you can also post Add By Phone content to Twitter by checking the box. If your cell phone has a camera and email, this is a great way to add photos or videos to your LSU profile while in the field! Any photo or video you

360 Degree View of New Jett Eye Data Collector

Posted by Jaybird on March 15, 2010 at 11:18pm

The folks at Two Technologies have been working overtime!


A Picture is Worth a Thousand Keystrokes®

Shown in three available standard colors. Contact your sales rep for more info on standard and custom colors.
Download the JETT•eye spec sheet HERE Optimize your JETT•eye photos! Download the Companion Guide!



•	Microsoft® Windows® CE 5.0
•	Marvell® PXA270 XScale® (Belverde) Technology Processor - 624MHz
•	320x240 QVGA-TFT Color, sunlight

GIS For Beginners (Not to be confused with "Get It Surveyed")

Posted by AxeMen Site Prep on March 16, 2010 at 9:27pm

GIS for Beginners

A Guide to Geographic Information Systems and Mapping for Non-GIS Professionals

GIS - short for Geographic Information Systems, can be a difficult topic to understand for many people. Though GIS is a complex system, the benefits and uses of GIS are readily applicable to the masses. Thisarticle tries to explain the basics of GIS, its nuances, benefits andpractical uses for everyone.

What is GIS?

Think of maps on computer. That's a very simple way to start understanding GIS.

Let's br

Find Assistance Troubleshooting From the Field Using Mobile Phone and Twitter Account

Posted by Jaybird on April 5, 2010 at 7:00pm

1. Log in to Twitter:

Sign Up<br /> <br /

2. In your Twitter Settings, Check:

3. Post to Twitter via mobile phone using the Hashtag: #LSUfield.

4. Check our maps for your tweet & wait for responses via Twitter:

This is what we want our Bing/Twitter Map to look like in the near future:

Which Other Land Surveyors are Online?

Posted by Jaybird on April 11, 2010 at 8:57pm

Several surveyors have asked me how to know when other members are online, so I made some adjustments to the network. Today, I've added new indicators to the network to let everyone know which other members are online.

Will indicate that a member who's photo, video or blog post you are looking at is online or not.

Will be the indicator for featured members on the front page and in the member pages to let others know if they are are online and available for support or chat.

In order to chate

Three New Discussion Topics added To the Forum

Posted by Skip Farrow on June 15, 2010 at 12:07am

Three new land surveying topics have been added to the network forum today. When you view the forum in "Grid Format" you will see them on the left hand side. They are as follows:

The Craziest Thing I ever Saw While Surveying

We have all seen things while surveying that most people in society would never run across in daily life. Gators, snakes, bears, planes hitting buildings, dogs catching birds...the sky is the limit. Tell us about it!

Inside the Work Truck

What do surveyors talk about at work? If

Introducing Surveyors of Land Animated Series on LSU

Posted by Jaybird on July 12, 2010 at 8:37pm

Introducing Surveyors of Land
For surveyors out there who like to goof off (I can't imagine there are any, but what the hey), I have an exciting announcement. Among us is a member by the name of Clay Ostrom, animator, artist and the creator of a new animated series called "Surveyors of Land." This show is centered around the lives of two land surveyors who get in all sorts of adventures and troubles, while doing practically anything they can to get out of actually doing work. I had a chance to c

Government Professional

What is Happening to our Profession?

Posted by Charles W Browning Jr on February 4, 2011 at 9:59pm

Hello everyone! I pose this question to you... What is happening to our profession? Yesterday, I was riding to a project site making conversation with one of my younger co-workers, and I asked him if he enjoyed surveying. The response I got made me physically ill. He quickly responded by saying, "No, I hate it. Surveying is a dead-end job." I was stunned! So I asked him why he felt that way. He proceeded to tell me that when he started working in the surveying field, he wanted to learn any and e

Backsite 2010 and Traverse 2011

Posted by Jaybird on January 10, 2011 at 5:04pm

This is a recap on the message that I sent to everyone earlier today. Because of harsh weather in many parts of the country and many surveyors switching companies or losing their previous email accounts altogether, I figured I should post this here for you to see.

First, I wish you all a happy new year and chose to purposely wait a few days into the year to send you this wish, as it is genuine. Last year was the toughest that many can remember ever living through in their lives, including my

Earthquakes

Posted by Randall R.Schaff PLS on December 6, 2010 at 3:10am

Anyone know of some good material about earthquakes and surveying ????????????

Surveyors, Have You Claimed Your Business with Google?

Posted by jbirds.co for Surveyors on December 8, 2010 at 8:00pm

I Am Going To Tell You How to Future-Proof Your Surveying Business
If you have, you are among the whopping 3% of business owners in the world who has claimed their business on the Google maps and in Google Local Search. Just run a quick search for Land Surveyors in your local area and see where you fall in the search results. If you haven't yet claimed your business you will be missing out on a LOT of business over the next 24 months. I want to help you out with making this claim if you haven't y

Featured Surveying Articles, Photos, and Discussions on LSU

Posted by Jaybird on November 8, 2010 at 5:15pm

Below I have attached a digest of the latest surveying related articles, discussions, groups and photos on Land Surveyors United, for your downloading pleasure and for viewing offline.

Latest in Featured Surveying Articles

featured-surveying-articles-NOV.pdf

Latest in Featured Surveying Discussions on LSU

featured-surveying-discussions-NOV.pdf

Latest in Featured Surveying Groups on LSU

featured-support-groups.pdf

Latest in Featured Surveying Photos on LSU

featured-photos-landsurveyorsunited

Land Surveyors United Twitter Journal

Posted by Jaybird on November 16, 2010 at 2:10pm

Within the following pages you will find an archive of all tweets and shared items which have come out of the Land Surveyors United network over the past 8 months. You can find solutions to problems, meet other surveyors and research solutions to common problems in the field.

Follow Land Surveyors United on Twitter @landsurveyorsU

Introducing the Land Surveyors United Twoural:

Open publication - Free publishing - More twitter

Surveyors Job Board Comes to Land Surveyors United

Posted by Jaybird on November 4, 2010 at 7:30pm

There are more land surveyors out of work today than ever before-this is not news to any of you. But how are we dealing with it? Well,you asked for it and I created it...Introducing the official Land Surveyors United Job Board!

Here, surveying companies can post available jobs for land surveyors, party chiefs, rodmen, instrument men...any job which is surveying related for an ultra low $7 for 30 days! This is much lower than craigslist or any other classifieds website offering land surveying j

Annoying zoom extents?

Posted by Gary on January 2, 2010 at 2:54pm

In AutoCAD 2000i LDD when double clicking the mouse too quickly the drawing does a zoom extents. For example I have a three-button mouse, the center button (the mouse wheel) being the culprit, it controls the zooming and panning. Well I will be flying around in the drawing, zoomed in to some degree and then it happens; zoom extents!I think I found a fix to this problem by typing in at the command prompt: "viewres" and hit enter, you are then prompted with the question "Do you want fast zooms?" b

What is "Gift Giving" on LSU? Why do I Want to do That?

Posted by Jaybird on January 30, 2010 at 5:00pm

Hello Surveyors!

You have most likely noticed that everyone's profile has a "Gift" application at the top by default and wondered to yourself "What the heck is that?"

Maybe you thought it was dumb and just continued about your business-perhaps you gave it a whirl. Don't give up so easy-there is actually a good reason for giving gifts. What i am here to tell you about may be of great interest to any of you who are interested in building lasting relationships with other land surveyors on LSU. W

Direct IP with the Ashtech ProMark3

Posted by Scott Taylor on September 13, 2010 at 1:07am

As you may know in 2008 I conducted research into developing a portable GNSS solution using the Magellan ( now Ashtech ) ProMark3 with Direct IP.

The full 105 page report is available on request.

Visit our Place a Post section on Global Surveyors www.globalsurveyors.com.au

Promote your surveying business or product for FREE and request a copy of the report.

You can view a really short video showing the initialization procedure and how I got a fixed solution at 17km with Single Frequency!!!

MobileMapper Generations

Posted by [email protected] on July 22, 2009 at 5:51pm

Three generations of the MobileMapper and three generations of ArcPad. Doing tech support for all three is a challenge.

I ran across something unusual the other day.

Posted by Gary on December 20, 2008 at 10:30pm

I'm by no means a computer geek so I will try to explain this the best I can. I was working on an AutoCAD drawing and had the drawing minimized so it was using half of the monitor's screen area. On the other half of the screen I was viewing a survey of record available online from the County Surveyor's office as a .tiff file which is made available by way of a Java application or platform (not sure of the correct terminology here). Well anyway I walked away from my computer for a while and when

Application video for permanent marking paint for Land Surveyors

Posted by omar lozada on August 8, 2010 at 9:39pm

We at Survey Crew published a video on youtube (URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8-3epV6Dd4) and at our site: surveycrewpr.com, to show how easy is to apply our permanent paint for Land Surveyors.

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