Locating property pins with a GNSS Land Meter 3

[RARWOOD]

I am a retired Civil Eng. with a piece of property where I have two known property pins. I need to locate the others and wonder if I can use a GNSS Land Meter to locate the others. I have tried to use GIS sites to locate the GPS coordinates or longitude and latitude without much luck.

 

[RARWOOD]

I am still working on my problem as well as my boat. I return the one GNSS meter I brought and purchased another model. The other model is suppose to be a GNSS Survey instrument that doe not seem to do anything.

Based on my experience small hand held GNSS units are a waste of money. Hopefully my Garmin GPS will get me close enough to find my lot pins. For the critical jointly owned property pin I think I need to hire a surveyor.

Too bad I don't know any survoyors who like to fish.

 

[1503-44]

GNSS will not find pins. It kind of works the other way around.
You need lat, long to get to the pins with gnss, but you do not have lat, long, only a very poor estimate at best.

Are you sure that pins were ever actually placed?
If so, try a metal detector.



--Einstein gave the same test to students every year. When asked why he would do something like that, "Because the answers had changed."

 

[RARWOOD]

I borrowed a metal detector from a friend. I am not sure if it can find buried pins or not. Regarding the known pins. When we purchased our lake place twenty-five years ago there were a number of visible pins with white stakes showing lot numbers. In other places there were no pins or white stakes. At one corner of our lot there was a 2x2 stake. I dug around it trying to find a pin without luck. So I think in most cases there were never any pins.

 

[1503-44]

OK it was staked without metal pins. Don't bother looking for metal.

Can your hand held pick up Galileo, Glonass and Beidou systems, or only NavStar?

--Einstein gave the same test to students every year. When asked why he would do something like that, "Because the answers had changed."

 

[RARWOOD]

The technical information indicates it will pick up GPS, CNSS,SBAS & BeiDou.