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billvhill
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RE: Useless Minor Subdivision Plat

One of the local counties redefined the word division on their code development. The regulations are for all Divisions of Land as per State statue req...

8 years ago
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RE: Field Software Poll

I've used TDS with the HP41 and Nikon total stations for about ten years, Leica software with Leica GPS for about ten years, and Survey Pro with Topco...

8 years ago
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RE: A Few Good Surveyors'

I have found that old highway plans usually show the degree of curve, but the radius and length usually don't match the degree and delta. Tangents als...

8 years ago
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RE: How to Apportion

Proportion between 3-7 for the test. You are accepting original monuments and giving equal frontage to the lots as per the original subdivision.

8 years ago
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RE: Opinions?

Did you find monuments for the predecessor metes and bounds or are you relying on bearings and distances? Were monuments found and accepted on the ori...

8 years ago
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RE: Essential tools for Surveyors

Plats and/or prints with calculated point numbers, GPS rover, shovel, metal detector, phone, tape measure and/or electronic distance meter. Nails for ...

8 years ago
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RE: Clarify Terminology For Me

This reminds me of a conversation I had with some one a few days ago.Hi Billy,I am needing the gps coordinates for my land that you did survey for ple...

8 years ago
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RE: Dead Rebar

It's usually in the winter when the ground is frozen a foot or two deep, when one seems to be a little more reluctant to dig for every sound they pick...

8 years ago
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RE: Dead Rebar

The scary thing about this is, it makes you wonder how many times you could have missed something. I worked on a job this week where I had this issue....

8 years ago
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RE: Topographic Survey or Topographical Survey

I say topo too, but put topographic on my surveys

8 years ago
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RE: "Survey without benefit of title"

I do all my own research, and pick up deeds for all adjoining properties for every survey. Researching and surveying at least a portion of the adjoine...

8 years ago
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RE: Really weird situation

A while back I did a survey for a lady who was planning to put up a fence. A few months went by before I got around to do the plat. I went to her hous...

8 years ago
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RE: Who receives the easement?

Why can't the Survey Plat have a dedication which includes the easement for the benefit of the ten acre tract. It is a land division regardless of whe...

8 years ago
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RE: Who receives the easement?

I believe there has to be a consideration for the document to be valid according to the local assessor

8 years ago
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RE: Pincushion Factory

There is a firm that found a stone monument during a lot survey done in 1980 which was an original town corner. This corner was also a corner of an ab...

8 years ago
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RE: CAD and background images question

Type image and insert into drawing, you will need to scale and position. I don't think regular AutoCad will recognize a Geo reference file unless you ...

8 years ago
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RE: Yet another Windows 10 annoyance (aka bug)

Along with technology comes technical difficulties

8 years ago
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RE: Extract an .rw5 from a .survey file?

Mark Mayer, post: 416476, member: 424 wrote: My results are the same as Jimmy's. And yours. There is nothing in the file other than coordinates.I may ...

8 years ago
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RE: Yet another Windows 10 annoyance (aka bug)

I just had a bad experience yesterday. I planned on plotting several surveys to record at the county, but recieved a call from a client that he would ...

8 years ago
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RE: Extract an .rw5 from a .survey file?

I usually export the points into an ascii file. And save the .raw and .job files. I just assumed the .job file only contained the coordinates and the ...

8 years ago
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