Resources for surveyors

GPS support

Ellis Veatch of Leica Geosystems His personal GPS support web page. Lots of useful information including tips, how-to's, and a user forum to ask Ellis questions.

Survey groups and associations

American Congress on Surveying and Mapping Detailed web site for all associations of ACSM as well. This site contains a wealth of resources and recommendations for continuing education.

ACSM Affiliates and NSPS Governors

Council of Professional Surveyors A committee within the American Consulting Engineers Council (ACEC)

Other groups and associations

American Society of Civil Engineers

National Society of Professional Engineers

American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing

American Consulting Engineers Council Formed to assist surveyors with the business of surveying.

GIS associations

University Consortium for Geographic Information Science

Urban and Regional Information Systems Association

Publications

Professional Surveyor Magazine

Point of Beginning (P.O.B.) magazine

GPS World Magazine

Useful information

CORS

NGS Points

Larimer County Control Network

Larimer County Baseline Information

Online Atomic Clock for instant time!

National resources

Bureau of Land Management

National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying All the information needed for registering and getting your PLS or PE.

Survey and engineering jobs

Survey Careers

GIS jobs

Other resources

Professional Land Surveyors of Colorado

Virtual Museum of Surveying

Land Surveying and Geomatic Schools (Partial List)

Geo Community

NGS GPS sites

CORS Continuously Operating Reference System: Download raw RINEX GPS data from any of the government run sites. All data is in Rinex form so the Brand of receiver does not matter!

NGS Online Software Full listing of all available online NGS software. Software is downloaded to your machine and run from there.

Inverse/Forward Inverse between two geodetic points using Lat/Long values. Resultant is geodetic azimuth and ellipsoidal distance. Also can do point in direction routine. All values are geodetic!

Magnetic Declination Exactly calculate the magnetic declination of a particular spot using the NGS geodetic information. Requires Lat/Long and elevation of the point in question.

NADCON Convert from Nad 27 to 83 in geodetic coordinates.

State Plane Coordinates Convert geodetic to state plane and back again. Very useful online tool.

UTM Coordinates Convert geodetic to UTM coordinates and back again.

Vertcon Calculate the difference between NVD29 and NVD88.

Corpscon If you don't have it you need it! Converts everything, it is 10meg though and lives on your PC so make sure you have time to download it.

NGS Map Requires Internet Explorer or Mozilla, doesn't work on Netscape. Slow on low speed connections, but very helpful.

GPS links

J-Track 3D NASA 3D apallet that shows all current satallites and orbits, not just GPS.