Patent ID: 7085672

Claim:
A surveying apparatus, comprising: a land based surveying means for providing a location survey that includes one of observation data and pile driving data, including a distance measuring device and at least one angle measuring device for measuring the range and angle of a selected point on land to be measured, wherein the range is a distance from a base point of the surveying means to the point on land to be measured; means for processing said data into processed observation data, which are brought about by a survey by said surveying means; means for storing said processed data made by said processing means; means for transmitting the processed data made by said processing means to a remotely located communications object connected to a communications network as processed observation data regarding a land survey on an application in compliance with a communication protocol regulated for said communications network; and means for receiving data for conducting a next survey in compliance with said communications protocol from said remotely located communications object, wherein said processing means further executes said next survey in compliance with said data received by said receiving means, wherein said communications object is a processor in a second said land based surveying means.