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How To Create Effective Surveying How To Tutorials

 

Those new to the surveying industry most always need a little know-how and in efforts to support this need, LSU provides the absolute best and simple platform for publishing such How-To discussions and articles. So today let's talk about what an effective How-To tutorial contains. A 'How-To' tutorial is by far one of the most common post types used by almost every blogger, writer or expert online. Why? Because people search for answers when they don't have them already. Inherently, 'How-To' po

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How Blogging is Like Land Surveying

I originally wrote this post on my father's blog back in June of 2008- now look and see how far we have come since then.

An update:
Through close to three years of experience creating LSU, I have come to understand how much blogging may not seem very useful to the common land surveyor. For that very reason, all blogs on LSU are referred to as "articles."Nevertheless, by now all of us have at least heard about what a blog is. Today I am going to explain to you how blogging is a lot like land sur
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If Your Calculator Sucks, Try These

 

As surveyors, we all know when its time to get a new calculator...right about the time it starts to suck! I found these great calculator alternatives for use online (via). Try them out!


The Architect Calculator

 

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For DIY, designers, contractors, estimators, and architects. Calculate lengths, areas, volumes, and hypotenuses, in Feet & Inches. Keyboard input with SmartDot: to enter 1'6 5/8", just type 1..6.5/8. The dot cycles through [dot] [ft mrk] [space] [inch mrk]. With very little practic

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allegrocx.jpgThe upgrade for the older surveyors that used or still use the SDR33, the AllegroCX with SDR+, at 50% off
If you have ever ran the SDR33 data collector, and used the SDR Expert software then you can upgrade your system to have bluetooth, the ability to use one of the BEST data collectors available by Juniper Systems. The Allegro CX has all the upgrades as far as processingspeed, a full color touch screen monitor, wireless connection bluetooth, full
keypad, and known for it's rugged nature.PLUS wi
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Field Assets Iphone App for Land Surveyors

Field Assets V2.0
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  • $16.99
  • Category: Utilities
  • Updated:Mar 23, 2010
  • Current Version:2.0
  • 2.0
  • 2.0 MB
  • Language:English
  • Seller:LBS Wireless Pty Ltd
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Description

Field Assets is the ultimate field data collection application for the iPhone and iPod touch. The application enables the user to record the location of assets and to enter information on attributes of assets in the field. The user also has the option of taking geo referenced photos and recording voice memos

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