Recent content by JFlamm

My practice has always been to leave everything in meters on the processing side including all exports. Autocad Civil 3d will convert it all to US Survey Feet upon import.

That's interesting but not surprising. It's not wrong either. Horse-Cart, Cart-Horse. It gets the job done. I've done plenty of preliminary studies that way. Once the project is deemed viable, we go back and perform the boundary survey to tie everything together. You can have assumed...

You are correct but I'll take it a step farther. Control isn't just some arbitrary point in the ground. Control has to and will have a relationship to the parcel boundary. We surveyors create that relationship so architects and engineers can keep their designs between the lines. Lines being...

You are correct there. The advancement of technology is inevitable. Things are becoming easier for everyone to utilize. I remember the first time I came on to a site and saw a non-surveyor using a total station and was laying out a building. I about lost my mind! It's common place now...

In my personal opinion, as long as that disclaimer is plastered on that image, I see no problem with it. People make preliminary exhibits all of time. But I've also seen that disclaimer get removed by a party that didn't want to pay to have it done for real. Have fun with that piece of toilet...

There are reasons why we PLS' have pages and pages of statutes and laws that we have to abide by. There are reasons why obtaining professional licensure is an arduous process that involves college degree, years of experience, and state/national level of examination. There are reasons why we...

It's not complete mission planning but I like to utilize Google Earth. A lot of times, GE has more up-to-date imagery than the service that Smart Controller uses. I'll draw out a polygon of the area I want to fly and export the .kml/.kmz and then create the mission by importing the .kml/.kmz...

That's an interesting and very eye opening take. I hadn't thought of that.