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Nice litttle Story that helps keep us in the proper prospective
Posted by Jp7191 on February 10, 2017 at 3:56 pm“John’s Little Acre” borrowed from ACSM bulletin, August 1975. Enjoy! Jp
Jp7191 replied 7 years, 6 months ago 10 Members · 15 Replies -
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I would “LIKE” this 10 times if I could. Thank you for sharing…
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Since you shared this here, I will hope you don’t mind if I share this at a seminar I assist at.
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Monte, post: 413478, member: 11913 wrote: Since you shared this here, I will hope you don’t mind if I share this at a seminar I assist at.
:)I probably did something wrong by posting but can’t imagine the author would mind us sharing years latter. If I wrote it I would be happy that value was still found in the story. Jp
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Go for it Monte. 😎
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Is there a problem with sharing an article that someone published in a magazine? I should probably know this, but if it is publicly published, what is the harm in sharing it?
(by the way, I think you meant “perspective”. Sorry but everytime I see this title, I have been “biting my tongue” and now it has been loosed.)
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I liked the article. I had to download the image. Then, open the image in my photo editing software. Then, scale it up a bit. But, I finally got to read “John’s Little Acre”.
Thanks!
N
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L.M. Powell Passed on many years ago, and so has his son Steve. I’ve retraced both across the Bitterroot valley. Good Surveyors….
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Tom Adams, post: 413604, member: 7285 wrote: Is there a problem with sharing an article that someone published in a magazine? I should probably know this, but if it is publicly published, what is the harm in sharing it?
(by the way, I think you meant “perspective”. Sorry but everytime I see this title, I have been “biting my tongue” and now it has been loosed.)
Sorry, real handicap on my part. Reason I lurk more than comment. Not as bad as some of correspondence. Jp
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Jp7191, post: 413638, member: 1617 wrote: Sorry, real handicap on my part. Reason I lurk more than comment. Not as bad as some of correspondence. Jp
I shouldn’t have said anything.
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Jp7191, post: 413638, member: 1617 wrote: Sorry, real handicap on my part. Reason I lurk more than comment.
If that’s the worst spelling mistake made this week, we’ll all be lucky. The “Spelling Police” are a running joke around here, but really we’re just trying to help each other express ourselves more clearly. Take it as a learning experience as I’m sure it was intended, not as a personal attack, and please do contribute when you have something to add.
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It’s just a web site where we all state things off the top of our heads. They aren’t words on a legal description. Sometimes we mistype some words. It is kind of rude to point out a typo. My apologies. I do that too often.
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Well, there’s the question of whether the article’s copyright is held by the author (or heirs), the ACSM, or shared.
I’m just one of those evil GIS people. Bwah-hah-hah! Seriously, I do coordinate systems and transformations at Esri. -
a copy of this was given to me in a surveying class years ago. i pass it along anytime that a question comes up about the differences in the still used original record description, usually an office concocted north-south-east-west with even distances, versus whats on the ground. it has come in handy many times and helps to explain things pretty well w/out me having to say a word.
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mkennedy, post: 413738, member: 7183 wrote: Well, there’s the question of whether the article’s copyright is held by the author (or heirs), the ACSM, or shared.
I don’t think anyone is loosing sleep over it.
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Tom Adams, post: 413710, member: 7285 wrote: I shouldn’t have said anything.
No biggie 🙂 I know I can’t spell or for that matter punctuate. My college English 1a teacher gave me an F on all my essays but then proceeded to read them out loud to the class because the story was good. Go figure; hope I still can add some value with bad spelling and punctuation. Jp
p.s. I pulled out a “C” somehow in that English class. 🙂
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