Surveying apparatus with network communications

A surveying apparatus is provided that includes devices for measuring a range and angle of a point, a processor for processing results of a location survey from the range and angle measurements, a memory for storing the processed data of the location survey, a transmitter, such as a mobile phone, for transmitting the processed data to a communications object connected to a communications network, such as the Internet, in compliance with a communications protocol, and a receiver that receives the survey data in compliance with the communications protocol. The apparatus allows survey data from different surveying devices to interact bi-directionally via the Internet.