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Joined: July 21, 2010 6:18 am
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Topics: 41 / Replies: 525
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RE: Ontario Court of Appeal & Surveyor's Copyright

Did I read it correctly? It seemed to me the court only decided whether the surveyor would be allowed to file a class action lawsuit rather than a law...

11 years ago
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RE: NWS "Damage Surveys"??

I have heard about NWS personnel visiting sites of severe weather to determine what kind of weather event occurred. They look at things like the direc...

11 years ago
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RE: Pros and Cons of Recording Surveys

CON -invasion of privacy issuesMy suggestion would be to allow surveys to be kept private, but private surveys could only be used by the person who pa...

11 years ago
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RE: Explaining "North" to an Attorney Today

Would this be something like John Smith born March 28, 1915 is a different person than John Smith, born March 28, 1915, are not the same person, and i...

11 years ago
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RE: Hydrants as monuments patent

A few decades ago I was working at IBM; my coworkers and I were getting a good laugh about a patent that was written up in Electronic Engineering Time...

11 years ago
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RE: How To Explain Basis Of Bearings To Non-Surveyors?

Maybe a down-to-earth scenario would help. Some lots have granite monuments placed back when the meadow is sold off by the retiring farmer. Fifty year...

11 years ago
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RE: Two way radios

Ham radio operators I know are using these, and seem to think they are ok, except they are very difficult to program through the keyboard. But if you ...

11 years ago
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RE: Determining Total Station Distance Standard Errors, Part 4

The aluminum channel seems to be in a basement, which probably has a stable temperature. So expansion and contraction between marking from the steel t...

11 years ago
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RE: What's better than wood stakes for property lines?

> I would keep using the wood lath and let the landowner decide what to replace your wood lath with. I have set T-post next to corners or on the pr...

11 years ago
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RE: METERS TO FEET

I found a discussion of precision issues in Excel atbr>Superficially 15 digits would be enough to give adequate results even if one was using state pl...

11 years ago
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RE: Area of the parcels in question

Wild guess: you subtracted the area of the right of way that the public possesses under the road that passes by the parcel, and the assessor didn't.

11 years ago
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RE: Permanent Monuments Help!?

Kent has a pointAs for fire hydrants, the ones in the north usually have the nut to turn them on at the top, which might seem like a good place to mak...

11 years ago
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RE: 2015 Polaris Ephemerii problem

Numbers still don't matchI forgot that Wahl's csv file used packed degrees, minutes, and seconds. Also, I had a wrong date in my spreadsheet. After I ...

11 years ago
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RE: 2015 Polaris Ephemerii problem

Excel DDMMSS to Decimal DD.xxxxxxI've made an Excel spreadsheet attempting to compare results from MICA and Wahl for 5 dates in 2015, spaced 90 days a...

11 years ago
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RE: 2015 Polaris Ephemerii problem

Excel DDMMSS to Decimal DD.xxxxxxMy initial reply is that I think the appropriate frame of reference to use is apparent geocentric. I wouldn't use top...

11 years ago
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RE: 2015 Polaris Ephemerii problem

Excel DDMMSS to Decimal DD.xxxxxxI tried to compare results from MICA to Wahl's results, but I MICA offers a choice of several reference frames (appar...

11 years ago
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