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Going to Trimble Dimensions? November 11-13?

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2024 Annual Trimble Dimensions User Conference . I'll be in Dr. Dru's NSRS and Trimble's RTN session as well as Peter Flint's (Alaska DNR) presentation on ACORN (Alaska Continuously Real-Time Network).

 
Posted : October 12, 2024 1:49 am
OleManRiver
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Have fun. I have been getting the itch to go back it has been many years since I attended one of those events. I was planning on going this year but unfortunately it falls exactly within the dates my son is getting married so maybe next year.

 
Posted : October 12, 2024 1:53 am
john-hamilton
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I will be there. I have been to all going back to the first several ones over in coastal California before they moved it to Las Vegas. I sometimes present a workshop or two, but not this year.

 
Posted : October 14, 2024 3:45 am
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I've never been to one and I'm not sure what it is actually. To a newbie it mostly looks like a huge sales pitch for Trimble gear. Is it worth going to one if you're not a Trimble user?

 
Posted : October 14, 2024 7:12 am
OleManRiver
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@BStrand hey of course it has its branding and marketing pitch but it is a huge training opt. They basically have many classes of different subjects put on all day every day. A nice time and I have never had a bad class. The actual experts in many of the different product Lines say TBC or Trimble access etc. then within those subjects as people want to teach. Before Trimble dimensions Trimble use to go around at a small scale and the engineers that developed the old gps units were on hand to ask direct questions from which helped stomp out myths and such.

 
Posted : October 14, 2024 9:46 am

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My liver is still recovering from 2010 when I went as editor of Professional Surveyor - the Trimble marketing team back in the day could put away the booze.

 
Posted : October 15, 2024 12:49 am
OleManRiver
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LOL. Well all that oxygen the casinos pump in you don’t get sleepy and all the bells and clinking of the machine keeps you in a nice cadence for drinking. You have most definitely been there. I am not a gambler I like my money way too much to throw it away. But one of my co-workers around 2005 I believe was on the machine control side and did sales. He liked black jack. So he had me set beside him one night to keep him company. Ha gives me 100$ in chips and said whatever I lose no worries whatever I win I can keep. I walked away with $1000 and gave him half. Plus his money back after a couple hours. Next day he said come sit with me. I say I am not spending my money. He said look at what you won. I said that was your money. So he spots me a 100 to lose. Again I get lucky. This time I gave him all but the hundred. One he had lost 5k. He got his 5k back that night on the agreement I didn’t have to sit with him anymore lol.

 
Posted : October 15, 2024 11:34 am
jimcox
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I'm no gambler either - lost way too much cash back in school for that


One trick I know is to halve your spendable cash.

Stick one half aside and DONT touch it.

Now you can relax, go out and have a good time with the other half.

And when its all over, you will only have lost half of what you can afford.

 
Posted : October 15, 2024 11:58 am
john-hamilton
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It keeps getting larger every year. There were 7000+ attendees this year. BUT, I saw fewer people that I know than in past years. Disappointing in that sense. Attended some good sessions, though. 

I had also planned to go this week to the SIRGAS symposium in Bogota. Had my plane ticket and hotel all setup. No cost to attend. But, prior to Dimensions I had traveled each of the three prior weeks to jobs out of state, and was falling behind on office work and had some new field projects coming up. So, I decided at the last minute to not go to Bogota. I watched all four days on youtube live feed. Half of one day the video feed was poor quality but the rest of the time it was good quality. Mostly Spanish (I am fluent in Spanish), but a few in English (translated on the fly to Spanish by interpreter) and a few in Portugese. Very informative. I was particularly impressed by some of the presentations from Chile. The entire country is subject to tectonic movements larger and more frequent than what California experiences. They seem to have a good handle on their kinematic reference frame (i.e. constantly moving). 

Here is a link to the program... https://sirgas.ipgh.org/simposio-2024/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/English-15-11-24-.pdf

About SIRGAS: https://sirgas.ipgh.org/en/

I had attended the SIRGAS symposia in Aguascalientes in 2018, and then missed a few because they were always at the same time as Dimensions. This year they offset it by a week. While the US does participate in Sirgas, it is not of great importance here, but for anyone who does work in South America (which I do), it is important. In the past NGS sent one or more people, but this year there was no one there from the US government as far as I know. I believe the NGS advisor for the Pacific Southwest Dana Caccamise usually attends, but apparently their travel budget was cut way back.

 

 
Posted : November 22, 2024 6:59 am