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Joined: July 1, 2010 9:00 pm
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RE: Please End Our Debate on This Federal Note!

How often do you see East on random ... 80.00 ? Seems odd with typical chaining accuracy of the day. If he was faking it I'd expect a made up number...

9 months ago
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RE: Please End Our Debate on This Federal Note!

I'm no rxpert, but I read that as Temp^y with the last letter raised as was common on many abbreviated words back then. Same both entries because he...

9 months ago
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RE: Attorney revised my stamped Exhibit map

What exactly was whited out or changed?

9 months ago
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RE: An Anthem Song for Surveyors

Interesting, but I can't help but think of how many other peoples' creative efforts the AI had absorbed and used them to make the orchestration.

9 months ago
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RE: The "simple" math we used to know how to do in our heads

1. Estimated x=2.48 2. 20 3. x=0 is only solution 4. X=3 Calculator says first one is 2.453...

10 months ago
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RE: Sometimes I wonder

"Which is hereby incorporated in this dpcument by reference" ?

10 months ago
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RE: Burt's Solar Compass

Too pricy for me. I've been fascinated by them for decades. If I had nothing else to do (ha) I'd get more shop tools and try making one. I recall so...

10 months ago
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RE: Life is a tangled web

Be glad you are a surveyor and not a title examiner assigned this project.

10 months ago
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RE: Aspiring surveyor in my first year of classes - give me your best advice!

If you are in Ohio you might want to check out the Surveyors Historical Society event in Marietta in September. They have a reasonable student rate. Y...

10 months ago
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RE: Localizing to Find Boundary Corners

My handheld GPS / phone says so. /s

10 months ago
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RE: Localizing to Find Boundary Corners

If you are using only two points, be sure they span the majority of the project length, so that slight errors are not leveraged into big ones.

10 months ago
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RE: Demarcating Control Points

In the US, rebar is probably not the best choice for control points because it is so widely used for property corners. In our city the Streets departm...

10 months ago
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RE: My First Scam

I once met a guy living in the same city with all three names identical to mine except that he was William and I'm not. At work there was a Beatrice w...

11 months ago
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RE: My First Scam

I just now read a post elsewhere from an acquaintance, saying he was scammed by a cloned web site. He tried to buy something from a site that looked i...

11 months ago
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RE: Least Squares adjustments method traversing by total station

Be sure that you have defined what coordinate system you are working in. GNSS will be converted to some projection which has a scale factor and may be...

11 months ago
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RE: Least Squares adjustments method traversing by total station

When using Least Squares you can add any reasonably accurate measurement you have, along with its probable error. You are not limited to a traverse. ...

11 months ago
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