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> "I'll bite, R.J. What's the other half of his problem?"> > > I was sure that would've been fairly obvious, not having a field crew out t...
> LandHo,>Half your problem here is you're dealing with Registered Land Surveyors.I'll bite, R.J. What's the other half of his problem?
> When the people to whom we provide our surveying services cannot find their corner monuments because we have used GPS, True North, Grid north...
How much latency is there when someone observses (sic) the crosshairs and yells "mark!".A lot more than if the observer simply pushes the lap button o...
> In the old days before handheld GPS, it was easiest to put a station for azimuth obervations near a feature on a quad sheet that could be readily...
Kent Is Whining About The Prior Work Of Surveyors> If Kent truly wants to affect the future he should volunteer to work on the "Surveying Body of K...
> In the old days, we typically had to scale positions off a quad sheet to get the latitude and longitude of the station where the astro azimuth wa...
Paul,Unless your sole purpose is to be argumentative, I think you've completely missed the essence of Kent's post; producing repeatable results from v...
> I hope that the surveyors who are continuing the practice of just creating their own private "North" directions from the rumored bearings between...
> I haven't been impressed by the quality of other SECO prisms I've bought in the past. In particular, the tilting prisms have been very floppy. I ...
> It was windy today and I had a prism pole in tripod blow over. It probably happens every few years or so. While the prism was undamaged, the targ...
1.34 Acres When Acre Is A Noun> In a 1.34 acre tract, acre is an adjective, actually "1.34 acre" is the compound adjective.> > Nouns are sing...
When writing a description I'll refer to it as 1.34 acres, e.g., Fieldnotes of 1.34 acres in the xxx survey, a-00, Polk County, Texas. When I come to...
Jim,Thanks for the link, and I'll certainly give it a look see.Kris Morgan handled the KML conversion for me, yesterday, but being able to do this in-...
> So, there really wasn't anything to be done but to straighten out the severely bent #4 bar and get a location on it afterwards. It was 0.07 ft. a...
Thank you gentlemen,All very good suggestions. One of them is bound to work.
Shawn,Currently, I'm using C&G with Autocad 2000.