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Joined: July 1, 2010 4:42 pm
Last seen: April 16, 2026 2:47 pm
Topics: 28 / Replies: 385
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RE: Why bother with Assumed Bearing Basis?

> "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...

13 years ago
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RE: Why bother with Assumed Bearing Basis?

> 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?

13 years ago
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RE: Why bother with Assumed Bearing Basis?

> When the people to whom we provide our surveying services cannot find their corner monuments because we have used GPS, True North, Grid north...

13 years ago
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RE: Why bother with Assumed Bearing Basis?

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...

13 years ago
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RE: Why bother with Assumed Bearing Basis?

> 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...

13 years ago
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RE: How Lazy Are Surveyors ? To Complain About Ancient Surveys ?

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...

13 years ago
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RE: Why bother with Assumed Bearing Basis?

> 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...

13 years ago
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RE: How Lazy Are Surveyors ? To Complain About Ancient Surveys ?

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...

13 years ago
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RE: Why bother with Assumed Bearing Basis?

> I hope that the surveyors who are continuing the practice of just creating their own private "North" directions from the rumored bearings between...

13 years ago
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RE: Tilting Prism with Target Plate

> 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 ...

13 years ago
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RE: Tilting Prism with Target Plate

> 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...

13 years ago
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RE: 1.34 acres or 1.34 acre

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...

13 years ago
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RE: 1.34 acres or 1.34 acre

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...

13 years ago
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RE: Importing cad files into Google Earth

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-...

13 years ago
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RE: Rehabilitating the "Pin Cushion"

> 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...

13 years ago
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RE: Importing cad files into Google Earth

Thank you gentlemen,All very good suggestions. One of them is bound to work.

13 years ago
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RE: Importing cad files into Google Earth

Shawn,Currently, I'm using C&G with Autocad 2000.

13 years ago
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