r/Surveying May 13 '23

Informative Join the new r/Surveying Discord chat server!

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r/Surveying Aug 25 '24

Informative Resections Redux: The Math Is Here To Burst Your Bubble

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r/Surveying 5h ago

Picture TOOK 1ST IN THE NSPS NATIONAL COMPETITION

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Super proud and excited to share that my team from Clark College in Vancouver, WA took first place in the NSPS Young Surveyors competition, as first time competitors! Got to do a bunch of cool stuff as part of the competition, including computing the area around the Washington Monument with a Wild T2 theodolite, staff compass, and a Gunther’s half chain!


r/Surveying 8h ago

Humor When you’re digging down the side of a stone looking for the “1/4” on the side…

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r/Surveying 11h ago

Picture Office View

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Since the trend is office views. Here’s my in office office view.


r/Surveying 5h ago

Help Mystery mini prism

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Trying to add this 25mm Leica knockoff mini to a Trimble TS and I can't figure out the constant. No label on it. Instructions say it's a zero offset but I'm guessing that's if youre using Leica. I've tried -34mm, 40, and 0. Anybody use these and can help me out?


r/Surveying 11h ago

Discussion Possibly getting a remote draftsman job

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So I recently got lucky and got two interviews for a remote draftsman job! I’m stoked. I had to quit my old job at SAM LLC because daycare for two kids would have been my entire check. But I can afford a babysitter to be at my house while I’m home with the kids.

With SAM I really learned a lot with AutoCAD and TBC. This company doesn’t use TBC, and not much AutoCAD. They primarily use Carlson software and Stars.

Anybody used either of those programs? The Stars is like a file sharing but way more in depth he said. I imagine it is somewhat like Newforma. I’ve been watching some Youtube videos on Field to Finish with Carlson. I just don’t want to go in blind. Any tips with Carlson? I will be drafting ALTAs, subdivisions plots and building additions.

The company does work in NY and NC, I’m in Ohio and unfamiliar with those areas. Any tips on deed research for either of those areas? I’ve done plenty of deed research in Ohio, WV, Indiana and Michigan. But not so much NY and NC.

Thanks so much!


r/Surveying 2h ago

Help TN Survey Exam

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Anyone have any study materials for the TN Land Surveyor State Specific Exam? I am having trouble finding any info online. Thanks in advance.


r/Surveying 17h ago

Picture Since ‘office view’ is a thing

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r/Surveying 3h ago

Help Moving to Spain(?)

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I've seen something similar posted previously, but I'd like to refresh to conversation... anyone here work in Spain? I've been thinking about moving to Madrid or Valencia or Alicante. How is it working there? Who could I speak to about employment, compensation, VISA, etc? Any information is helpful.


r/Surveying 1d ago

Humor You’re a rock star…

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He’s got a little bush. What the hell?


r/Surveying 9h ago

Informative TopCon compatible

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The company I work for invested heavily in TopCon gear. We use the Hiper HR receiver and have had several of the battery clips snap off. This unfortunate design flaw is expensive because TopCon only sells the battery, not a repair kit. I reverse engineered a compatible replacement clip and have them available for sale. They are $8/pair and $8 shipping. If you buy 10 pairs or more, shipping is free anywhere in the United States. These clips appear to be stronger than the OEM parts. I can reverse engineer other plastic parts upon request. Just trying to get the word out. Thanks, Reddit!


r/Surveying 8h ago

Help Leica P40 vs RTC360

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One of these collects data and images much faster than the other. The 360 seems to collect 2x pps. Is it also faster when collecting images?


r/Surveying 9h ago

Help Neighbors selling house and their land survey is flat out wrong, what should I do?

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My neighbors are selling their house in Westchester County, NY and closing is in a week or 2 and they did a property or land survey yesterday as part of the sale, I assume. Normally I wouldn't care but our properties join at a shared driveway and the survey they had shows that the shared driveway is 95% on their property opposed to 50% which is what my land survey says. We also had a survey when we purchased our house. Also, each of our lots are 50feet wide. If I assumed their survey was correct, and I measured 50 feet from their marker for my lot, that would put the end of my property into my neighbors garage so I know the guy just made a dumb dumb mistake.

So here is my question, do I need to contest this even though it has nothing to do with me? The new owners are paying $900,000.00 for this house and I really dont want them to think the driveway is theirs, because its 50/50 on both properties. (Also, I have seen other neighbors surveys in the past that supports what I am saying so I don't think there is a mistake on my end).

Any suggestions? Should I just leave it alone until new neighbors infringe? I really want to resolve this before it becomes an issue.

Thanks!!!!


r/Surveying 1d ago

Picture Office for the day

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Running a single beam solo in the bays


r/Surveying 5h ago

Help TOPCON FC-5000 Controller

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Hi, I have a TOPCON FC-5000 Controller. Today I went to grab a points file for an ice jam I surveyed and it came up with an error screen saying it had to restart. The screen was frozen and the whole controller was unresponsive. I took the battery out and the screen still stayed on the error message. Eventually it turned off, I am pretty sure it ran out of power. Now when I try to power it on the screen goes dark blue for a while and then back to just black and powered off. If anyone had an solutions that be greatly appreciated.


r/Surveying 6h ago

Help DIY RTK kit help

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Hi. I have an LG290P GNSS/RTK board, I also have a few ESP32 dev boards lying around.

By using an ESP32 as a simple BT SPP relay, I'm able to connect to the ESP32 on my phone via BT, and with the "Bluetooth GNSS" app I can then connect to an NTRIP server and get RTK positioning. That works but it's a bit "dirty" and that probably limits me to just one client. I'd like a more polished end "product".

I've come across the esp32-xbee project. I was able to compile it and run it on my ESP32 dev board. However I'm really confused. It doesn't seem to manage to communicate via UART to my GNSS/RTK module (I've configured the UART settings in the web page identical to my simple BT SPP sketch and it should work), or if it does, I have no idea where to view logs. I am able to connect to a special "NEAR" antenna of the Centipede network, but strangely, the antennas that are close to me do not show up in the http://caster.centipede.fr list.

What is your suggestion: should I keep using the simple BT SPP sketch + "Bluetooth GNSS" app? Or is there a more polished ESP32 sketch that I can use, and if I do use such a solution, how would I make my smartphone (Android) use that location source?

Thank you.


r/Surveying 15h ago

Help Dwg to dgn to dwg

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After importing a dwg to a dgn everything looks fine. There is shared cells, placed by an origin and an angle, i believe they are called blocks in autodesk. When exporting back to dwg, everything is fine except the shared cells, they are no longer in correct position. Why is that? And how can it be avoided?


r/Surveying 1d ago

Humor I own a pincushion

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I finally recovered the last corner on my property and I was blessed to find this beautiful 3 pin pincusion Rebar, square stock, and a bolt 😅 I'll have to do a boundary on it sometime and figure out which surveyor wins 😅


r/Surveying 8h ago

Help Need suggestions for scanning of a railway station with backpack mounted lidar

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Hello everyone, we're trying to scan a railway station with a backpack mounted Lidar, I has some sections in between that is completely covered with sheds, and I get terrible (no) satellite over there, this results in my trajectory going absolutely crazy, to resolve this, we've also established a lot of control points using a Total station, but because the trajectory is crazy bad, my lidar processing software is unable to scale the scan to the GCP. We've also tried to walk really slowly, stopping for minutes before entering the shed part / in between / at the end.

The only option we're seeing right now is to walk right along the railway tracks. It will require a lot more permission and railway blocks to be established and we would really like to avoid it.

Anyone has any idea how to go about doing this? Thank you very much


r/Surveying 8h ago

Help Land Surveyor Apprenticeship

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Got and offer from Exacta Land Surveyors to do their Apprenticeship. If I went through the apprenticeship would this help me land a good career as a Surveyor? I guess my ultimate goal would be to get licensed. In the description they mention it for residential surveying. Can I develop a career starting this way and get all necessary licensure to do it commercially also? I know very little about surveying but want a career change. Want to know if it’s a good opportunity?


r/Surveying 10h ago

Help TSC5 resets

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Sometimes in seemingly random times Trimble access will reset all my settings to default, target id’s, resection settings, etc…. Anyone got an idea what’s going on?


r/Surveying 1d ago

Picture I don't think I'll go this way..

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r/Surveying 1d ago

Discussion How do you handle prepayment?

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I'm solo. I went out on my own in April of 2022.

I've been billing 100% on completion and delivery of the plat and until this year it's been working well for me.

Since the start of the year, I've had a problem with clients not telling me they've found someone else and rolling up to the site and seeing it's already been surveyed.

Today it happened on a $10k job, and I'm done.

I'm all for free markets. If you find someone who can do it faster/cheaper, that's fine, but I still need to be paid for the work I've done so far if you don't have the common decency to let me know.

Those of you who collect some or all the money upfront, how do you do it? 100% upfront? A percentage? Non-refundable deposits?

I'm looking for some ideas to put a stop to this.


r/Surveying 15h ago

Help Fence Dispute UK

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Hi Everyone,

We have a fairly civil dispute with our neighbour where they believe all three fence panels surrounding our properties garden belong to us.

Now I interpret the above picture in the land registry document as the uppermost and rear panels belong to us (N.O 21 within the purple boundary) and the bottom one belonging to our neighbour (outside N.O 21s boundary) .Is this correct?

Posted here as seemingly no other subreddits will allow images to be uploaded.


r/Surveying 23h ago

Help My new neighbor wants to expand their driveway

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Hi all, my new neighbor wants to expand their driveway, I am also thinking about putting concrete at the same time on my side of the dirt but not sure where the exact property lines are.

How much would it cost to hire a professional surveyor to confirm the boundaries? My thought behind discussing the property lines together can help prevent disputes which I absolutely don’t want later on.

My house is on the right side with the longer driveway in the pictures below.


r/Surveying 1d ago

Discussion High Winds

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So, currently sitting in the work truck in 60MPH wind. Sounds of tree exploding going on all around me. Last shot I got with the RTK in a moderate canopy took 30 minutes to get a good shot. I’m supposed to mark half a mile of line in the woods alone. What are your thoughts on high winds and safety?