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bill93
@bill93
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Joined: July 1, 2010 9:00 pm
Last seen: September 16, 2026 7:15 am
Topics: 291 / Replies: 9708
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RE: Your longest shot with a total station

The GTS-2B book claims 7200 ft on one prism under ideal atmospheric conditions, and 14,100 ft (4300m) with 9 prisms.?ÿ So apparently they didn't have ...

5 years ago
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RE: New Mexico Question

It turns out the wording isn't clear. You're going to have to find an official interpretation. 12.7.2.8.B (8) An ALTA/?ÿNSPS survey?ÿis a boundary s...

5 years ago
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RE: Michigan State Specific

I don't know if it's on the test, but Michigan is unusual in having an oblique Mercator Georef system in addition to more common SPC zones.

5 years ago
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RE: 20 miles?

That's going to depend on your definition of a road. Does a dirt path count? Does it have to be maintained by a government entity?

5 years ago
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RE: The average surveyor

It isn't that the number shrinks so much as it is the turnoffs get much steeper.

5 years ago
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RE: It was all for this.

But where will you live then? Another state? I thought you liked FL.

5 years ago
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RE: It was all for this.

I'd never seen a GTS-2. It probably won't sell for much on ebay, but the tribrach is worth something and maybe someone wants the power cable and a bat...

5 years ago
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RE: What does N 31?? 30ƒ?? 55ƒ? W refer to?

Monuments are for the land owner, too, not just for other surveyors.?ÿ If he finds monuments (rebars?) at distances that match the plat within his tap...

5 years ago
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RE: RTK Point Movement

95% sounds pretty good, until you restate it as "1 in 20 of our measurements are out of spec"

5 years ago
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RE: Splain to Me

That's a different interpretation from mine, but equally valid since we can't put a micrometer to his cutouts.

5 years ago
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RE: What does N 31?? 30ƒ?? 55ƒ? W refer to?

The photo doesn't display on my desktop computer, either. It says there are errors in the jpg file.

5 years ago
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RE: RTK Point Movement

moot I see this a lot, unfortunately. Asst. Spelling Police, jr grade.

5 years ago
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RE: What does N 31?? 30ƒ?? 55ƒ? W refer to?

dms330 gave a good answer. I'll add that a compass doesn't point at the geographic north pole, but at a magnetic pole, so you need a "declination" cor...

5 years ago
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RE: Long Line Geodetic Inverse by P.D. Thomas

A little rich. I doubt it will sell at that price, with free pdf available.

5 years ago
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RE: Splain to Me

Before AND after, in opposite directions.

5 years ago
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RE: Splain to Me

Yep, he cheats by not having the pieces lay flat on the grid. In the first picture the slope of the left triangle is 3/8 = 0.375 but the top triangle ...

5 years ago
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RE: You can't set anything

If you can't get access to set something, are you sure there isn't a mon already there? HB's profile words do not indicate a deed math staker attitud...

5 years ago
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RE: Dutch Hill DH-1000 Tripod for Robotics?

Google will get you some discussions.?ÿ Try: site:surveyorconnect.com dutch hill robot

5 years ago
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RE: The average surveyor

Henny Youngman "... about women ... Take my wife. Please."

5 years ago
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