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bill93
@bill93
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Joined: July 1, 2010 9:00 pm
Last seen: October 15, 2026 8:50 am
Topics: 291 / Replies: 9717
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RE: Failing to convert XYZ to DMS

@john-nolton?ÿ NaN is computerese for Not a Number, meaning it has no usable value. Someone should be along eventually who can tell how to convert w...

5 years ago
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RE: Would you stop surveying if you won the lottery?

@sergeant-schultz?ÿ As I have occasionally posted in threads here, I've volunteered on three archaeology projects.?ÿ None of them used a total statio...

5 years ago
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RE: Staking in the wind

That reminds me of a story my brother told about something that happened in the 1970's after I left home.?ÿ They were watching a college or pro basket...

5 years ago
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RE: Staking in the wind

Did it go in? When I was in H.S. our BB team in the district championship was behind one basket and the crowd counted down as the clock was running o...

5 years ago
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RE: Would you stop surveying if you won the lottery?

So I'm retired from another occupation and come here to keep my mind busy. ?????ÿ

5 years ago
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RE: Computing a coordinate from road as-builts...

What's the rest of the curve data?

5 years ago
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RE: Beer 30 has been monumented

It's probably wedged tight enough between the bricks that it won't come out without tools.

5 years ago
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RE: Stakin' in the rain, what a glorious feeling!

@ddubya?ÿ Probably the wrong word. Inscrutable: Any person or thing that's mysterious, mystifying, hard to read, or impossible to interpret?ÿ

5 years ago
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RE: Solar Farm Pile Layout

That's less than a minute each, all day long, except for water and bathroom breaks. Moving right along. How many of what kind of pile drivers can dri...

5 years ago
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RE: Cleaning up our act

@jitterboogie?ÿ Grinnell, Iowa has strange numbering in that the 700 block of addresses are between 2nd and 3rd avenues, etc.

5 years ago
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RE: Estimating Time

Bet they heard a lot about their names.?ÿ I worked for Dennis Day and he sometimes traveled for business with Jim Durante.?ÿ They disappointed a few h...

5 years ago
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RE: Feedback from other Surveyors

Some tension between productivity and quality is normal in any job, but it sounds like you are being stretched. Am I right it isn't your stamp that g...

5 years ago
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RE: Standard Corners and Closing Corners

But it's just a checkerboard.???ý ???? ???®?ÿ?ÿ

5 years ago
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RE: The Myth of Mobility for Professional Land Surveyors

Even many PLSS states had different instructions from each other.?ÿ If you are retracing something old you need to know the territory.?ÿ There are en...

5 years ago
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RE: Ever use this area formula?

Thus likely computational inaccuracy when ac is small. If c=0 we wouldn't usually be using the formula. It factors easily then.

5 years ago
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RE: Ever use this area formula?

I'd never seen this form. After playing around with it I think it is fully equivalent to the usual form, and not just under the stated condition. But ...

5 years ago
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RE: Cleaning up our act

A slight change in an addition name can make it much harder to find in a deed registry or GIS.

5 years ago
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