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bill93
bill93
@bill93
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Joined: July 1, 2010 9:00 pm
Last seen: September 22, 2026 4:22 pm
Topics: 291 / Replies: 9708
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RE: Deprecation of the ƒ??U.S. Survey Footƒ? on December 31, 2022

Michael Dennis showed this exact slide in his Oct 10 webinar presentation on State Plane 2022 at about 0:52.

7 years ago
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RE: Deprecation of the ƒ??U.S. Survey Footƒ? on December 31, 2022

I don't see that it's a big deal.?ÿ The only place in surveying it makes a significant difference is in SPC or similar large area projection coordinat...

7 years ago
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RE: Is it X or is it Y?

Can't sell what he doesn't own, so this can't be interpreted to cross the east section line.?ÿ Strips and gores doctrine says that since it does not e...

7 years ago
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RE: Mini prism

If you set the prism constant offset for each prism, any prism should give essentially the same accuracy as another over most of the working range.?ÿ ...

7 years ago
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RE: The Most Ridiculous Thing Ever

Is that where the GIS said the line was?

7 years ago
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RE: Is it X or is it Y?

I'm going to be surprised if many agree that the north quarter corner and center don't control, given that the description uses what appears to be an ...

7 years ago
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RE: $#%%&*# Pipeline

This bench mark was one of my high priority ones to fill a huge gap for the GPSonBM program. Railroad removed an old signal building at this crossing....

7 years ago
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RE: Solar / Polaris Ephemeris

I do need to mark my focus setting.?ÿ But neither my instrument optics nor my eyes are of Wild quality. I recall finding Polaris one morning and watch...

7 years ago
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RE: Kansas Society Land Surveyors Conference - Oct. 2019

I took a summer class at 8:00 am before going to my work-study job.?ÿ I was spending a lot of late nights with friends, so wasn't up to full speed at ...

7 years ago
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RE: Solar / Polaris Ephemeris

SPADE hasn't been updated in quite a few years so is extrapolating far past actual earth behavior data.?ÿ Has anyone checked how accurate it is now? I...

7 years ago
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RE: Can Obstructions Below GPS Height affect measurements and calculations

What is a "software ground plane"????ÿ I've never heard of anything by that description. An advanced receiver can look at for multiple arrivals in tim...

7 years ago
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RE: Can Obstructions Below GPS Height affect measurements and calculations

Have the antennas taken advantage of the circular polarization from the early days onward, or is that a more recent development?

7 years ago
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RE: Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Mo

If you set it correctly, and the next guy does it right, he will fall very close to your bar rather than another one.

7 years ago
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RE: Second Hand Calculators

I bought a 15C to go back to school in the fall of 1981, and won one as a prize about 1983, so had one at home and one at the office.?ÿ They both stil...

7 years ago
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RE: Scrivener's error (I think)

Help them get it in writing NOW what rights and responsibilities belong to whom, so it isn't an argument down the road.

7 years ago
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RE: TEQC help

I'd run it again next week to get Rapid results instead of Ultra-rapid, just in case more CORS data comes in that helps. With only 40% of the observat...

7 years ago
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RE: How would you adjust this leveling data?

Star*Net output:From To Elev Diff StdErr LengthA E?ÿ 0.7320?ÿ 0.0059 970A F?ÿ 1.9780 ?ÿ 0.0060 1002B E?ÿ 0.4200?ÿ 0.0062 1070C F?ÿ 0.9880?ÿ 0.0063 111...

7 years ago
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RE: How would you adjust this leveling data?

I pulled out the calculator and find the Star*Net standard errors listed above are 0.006 * sqrt(km). The usual assumption in the textbooks is that the...

7 years ago
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RE: How would you adjust this leveling data?

I guess Point F should be labeled Point D or vice versa, as I can't find D either.

7 years ago
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