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bill93
bill93
@bill93
Member P&R, Founder
Joined: July 1, 2010 9:00 pm
Last seen: September 26, 2026 8:31 pm
Topics: 291 / Replies: 9710
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RE: Side or rear?

I could argue that he has two side lines, and his rear line is a single point, line of length zero. That probably won't fly with bureaucrats who have...

9 years ago
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RE: To slide or not to slide?

Fredh, post: 425033, member: 12570 wrote: level up and you're plummet is off the point by a tich, not much but a noticeable amount, How big a "tich"?...

9 years ago
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RE: One man's junk...

Labeling could be better. Why did he set two rebar ant/near the NW corner, and why is the NE monument not set on the line labeled "Property Line"? I...

9 years ago
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RE: HP Vintage Calculators 11C and 15C

I bought a 15C to go back to school for my MS in 1981, and won one as a door prize about 1983. They both still work and at least one of them gets use...

9 years ago
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RE: Family Land

There's no law against surveying your own land without a license. And probably none against any surveying that isn't done for hire or used for offici...

9 years ago
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RE: Family Land

Maybe OPUS on another corner as a check on your TS work?

9 years ago
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RE: Family Land

So is it worth going to court to rectify?I take it you used your recently purchased GPS units to make the measurements, and rotated the plat to match ...

9 years ago
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RE: Surveying in States where NOT Licensed

If you aren't licensed in the state, you're a party chief and can do anything under supervision of someone licensed there. Isn't it that simple? So ...

9 years ago
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RE: Vertical Datumns, OPUS, FEMA

The absolute uncertainty in GEOID12B would be a problem, but wouldn't the geoid slope be pretty accurate? So if he used the data sheet on the referen...

9 years ago
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RE: Why don't we have a gps type satellite on the moon?

The moon is on average 19 times the distance of the GPS satellite orbits.So you have-high cost of delivery and soft landing on moon-weak signal unless...

9 years ago
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RE: Vertical Datumns, OPUS, FEMA

Definition:St. John reference Bench markDo they have flood maps of the area? What were those tied to?They want computations, give them some worst-ca...

9 years ago
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RE: Is this a JOKE?

Kent McMillan, post: 424544, member: 3 wrote: Is this Massachusetts Registered Land, by any chance? Oh, good! Now Kent gets to pick on somebody else...

9 years ago
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RE: PLSS Trivia--How does your State stack up

That jog in the line Holy Cow referred to was very likely due to various attempts to locate the 37th parallel. The text in 267 US 30 mentions two monu...

9 years ago
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RE: PLSS Trivia--How does your State stack up

Holy Cow, post: 424198, member: 50 wrote: A question for Oklahoma and Colorado surveyors.What the heck happened along the border between those two Sta...

9 years ago
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RE: PLSS Trivia--How does your State stack up

That's a strange map. It must be showing lines connecting the furthest easterly point with furthest westerly point, and northerly point with southerl...

9 years ago
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RE: Dealing with potential clients who want to dicker.

Can they offer information that would show how the job was easier than you thought? Perhaps an old survey you didn't know about, or that they have cl...

9 years ago
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RE: PLSS Trivia--How does your State stack up

Rick Taylor, post: 423880, member: 304 wrote: All of North Dakota is referenced to the 5th P.M., which passes through Minnesota, and has its initial p...

9 years ago
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RE: Testing new GNSS Receiver Yesterday

Loyal, post: 423808, member: 228 wrote: That's Mark Silver w/ the Banjo. Taking lessons from TDD?(for those who haven't been around long enough to re...

9 years ago
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