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bill93
bill93
@bill93
Member P&R, Founder
Joined: July 1, 2010 9:00 pm
Last seen: September 25, 2026 12:38 pm
Topics: 291 / Replies: 9710
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RE: New kind of surveyor

Do people still play Tetris? We had a band at the arts venue recently that had the art down solid.?ÿ When they packed the trailer, they started with t...

9 years ago
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RE: Ever use this excuse for being late

Speaking of sap running, what became of @perry-williams ??ÿ He's probably busy with his maples right now, but it's been a long time since I noticed a ...

9 years ago
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RE: Relativistic geodesy article

Did you notice the size of their equipment??ÿ That and the fact that it is cutting edge research means you won't see it marketed for quite some time.

9 years ago
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RE: Relativistic geodesy article

That would be a great tool for NGS if they can take it another order of magnitude.?ÿ As I read the article, they are saying that if they rebuilt their...

9 years ago
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RE: My Surveyor can't get started

The LS probably never saw the site, the crew was just told to pound in monuments where the data collector said, and the person who loaded the data col...

9 years ago
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RE: Surveyors Week March 18-24, 2018 GPS on BM

I've been going over the priority list in the areas I frequent.?ÿ There are a lot of marks on it that haven't been reported in decades, or even that h...

9 years ago
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RE: NGS Datasheet orthometric height discrepancies

If you click on a picture it enlarges and is readable. I see the 8 cm p-p?ÿellip ht number, and I stand by my own criterion that 8 cm is garbage that ...

9 years ago
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RE: Looking for someone who understands optics

Your camera would have to focus to very close range and it probably doesn't without help.?ÿ An eyepiece has an effective focal length on the order of ...

9 years ago
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RE: NGS Datasheet orthometric height discrepancies

Posted by: GeeOddMike ?ÿThe official guidance on what constitutes a ƒ??goodƒ? OPUS solution includes reference to better than 5 cm peak-to-peak error...

9 years ago
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RE: NGS Datasheet orthometric height discrepancies

Thanks, John!?ÿ That's a great source of information.?ÿ I particularly liked finding the link to the new priority list for observations. The statement...

9 years ago
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RE: NGS Datasheet orthometric height discrepancies

Quoting advice from Base9geodesy in an older thread: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ...

9 years ago
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RE: NGS Datasheet orthometric height discrepancies

I believe that when NGS releases a new geoid model they do a best fit between GPS ellipsoidal heights at selected locations (HARN, etc) versus old lev...

9 years ago
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RE: Webpage update

First impression look good.?ÿ Load speed is good - you didn't bog it down with a bunch of 5 mbyte pictures like too many web sites. I thought it stran...

9 years ago
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RE: Interesting cemetery marker

Another surveying-related cemetery item: It was common practice more than a century ago for the Coast & Geodetic Survey to place markers for local...

9 years ago
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RE: Data Collector batteries and the cold

No, No, No.?ÿ No d*ct tape on anything you ever want to clean up again.?ÿ I use (expensive) theatrical gaffer tape when I must attach something tempor...

9 years ago
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RE: Friday Pincushion

Too bad you didn't find a recorded survey to explain who did it and their reasoning.

9 years ago
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RE: My rant for the week

While it may be easier in CAD those almost coincident rear corners aren't anything new.?ÿ I've pored over a 1958 plat that has some corners less than ...

9 years ago
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RE: Ok- that was weird......... R8 gremlin....

First order bench mark in rock outcrop - doesn't get any better than that except for limited sky visibility and the power lines overhead.?ÿ At least t...

9 years ago
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