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Joined: July 14, 2010 6:12 pm
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RE: Advice for getting into the field

> One is a 24 credit hour GIS certificate and the other is a surveying certificate requiring 18 credit hours.> > What I'd like to hear from y...

13 years ago
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RE: Note to client.

> You can bring a Layman to water, but you can't make him think.Love this, I'm soo gonna steal [borrow] it 😉

13 years ago
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RE: Public perception of Land Surveying from another forum

> Again, is this an art, profession, or science?Call it what you want, but its a job. There are professional engineers, professional surveyors, law...

13 years ago
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RE: My survey chariot and signage.

Looks good Carl. one of the more unique survey vehicles I worked out of was a '78 CJ-7. 33" tires, 304 w/ a 4 speed. Anyways, that company was able to...

13 years ago
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RE: New Business

Sole proprietorship provides the least amount of protection should lawyers or creditors ever come after you - there is no separation between the indiv...

13 years ago
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RE: Professional Career Lockdown

Great post! A buddy of mine (not a PS) has worked as: managing a wastewater system at a trailer park, engineering inspector, painter, union stage hand...

13 years ago
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RE: A Note & Update From Angel...

Thoughts, prayers & hoping for the best for you and your family

13 years ago
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RE: Some People Should Not Be Allowed To.......

Her name was Cruella deVille / de Vil / Deville - not entirely sure of spelling, but from 101 Dalmations - and an obvious play on Devil

13 years ago
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13 years ago
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RE: State Specific Exams

MI does. Its offered multiple times through out the year, and you only have to wait 90 days I believe if you fail it & need to retake it. I actual...

13 years ago
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RE: Oblique Mercator transformation

Great reply, thanks Earl!I'm going to plug the Hotine equations from Stem into Excel; I think its going to work far better (and easier) than the softw...

13 years ago
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RE: Oblique Mercator transformation

My model is still hanging up by a 100 m + or - compared to NGS for Alaska 5001 zone. I just found the Snyder / USGS publication online. He presents ex...

13 years ago
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RE: Oblique Mercator transformation

Loyal, the info I dug up on this system indicates it as a Hotine Skew Orthomorphic projection. It was developed by a Dr. Ralph Moore Berry @ Universit...

13 years ago
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RE: Oblique Mercator transformation

Yep, I used this document for the false northings / eastings, scale, azimuth of skew, lat & long @ origin etc. I'm not sure I can use the NGS tool...

13 years ago
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RE: Oblique Mercator transformation

Mike - thanks for the tip. Yep,definitely using natural log (ln).These obviously aren't state plane coords, as MI uses 3 zones of lambert conformal pr...

13 years ago
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RE: Butch, Regarding The Surveyor Poll ?

Emailed you. I'll have to check my profile to see if I have email enabled or not.edit - its enabled now

13 years ago
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RE: What is an office surveyor?

The survey that was done for my present lot, either the stamping PS never set foot on it, or if he did, he didn't bother to look over what he was stam...

13 years ago
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RE: 15C

$100 for a calculator based primarily on nostalgia - I think HP saw you nostalgia seekers coming! 😛

13 years ago
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