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Topics: 38 / Replies: 443
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RE: How old were you when you started your own surveying company?

I was 31 and had a fairly good time at it until early this year when I took a job with a larger firm -- so far I like that a lot but have no regrets a...

5 years ago
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RE: Surveying without a license

@skeeter1996 This is just surveying 101, isn't it? Measurements yield to monuments. Period. As to surveying without a license -- I think it would dep...

5 years ago
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RE: Disgruntled client voicemail

I've learned the hard way that this is true in Maine too.

6 years ago
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RE: "End of Life" receiver firmware

Ditto here, though I've got a couple of GPS-intensive jobs coming up and I hope my post-rollover testing didn't overlook anything.

6 years ago
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RE: Reliance Letter

"revise the parties benefited" is the phrase that would scare me. Basically it says "I hereby make myself liable" to the following additional players ...

6 years ago
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RE: Reliance Letter

"This letter will serve to revise the parties benefited by my ALTA/ACSM Land Title Survey entitled ƒ??[name of survey]ƒ? in the City of [city], [stat...

6 years ago
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RE: When did it become an offense to ask town officials to do their job?

I'm no lawyer but I suspect that most of the uses under discussion here would come under the "fair use" exception to the copyright laws.

6 years ago
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RE: When did it become an offense to ask town officials to do their job?

I've run into this countless times here in central Maine. Your big mistake was trying to get this information over the phone. Municipal personnel will...

6 years ago
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RE: Before Modern Surveyors

I've done all that and still drive a stick shift in both my work and leisure vehicles (and I still carry and use a plumb bob). But conspicuous in its ...

6 years ago
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RE: Archives - what to keep

My really old ones are ink & mylar -- got them indexed & rolled up and stored in a relatively hospitable place and I can usually find what I n...

6 years ago
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RE: Very basic GPS tutorial

Looks right to me. It's good to review this stuff from time to time, so thank you, Nate. It took me the longest time to get this into my head, which h...

6 years ago
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RE: I may just be getting old and cranky

I tend to agree, but I've shown North at less than straight upright a few times in order to fit everything on a conventionally sized sheet at a sensib...

6 years ago
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RE: Deed talk.

I usually resist the temptation to play lawyer -- this is a legal question for a lawyer and not a question for a surveyor, but I've failed to resist: ...

6 years ago
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RE: Tree blazes and hacks

Try this, starting on page 23 (and the rest of Mulford is well worthwhile as well): Mulford

6 years ago
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RE: Vacate platted road

I always tell my clients you can do your own legal work without a lawyer, and you can pull your own teeth with a pair of vise-grips and a bottle of wh...

6 years ago
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RE: Adverse Possession over an easement and against a railroad

I suspect the marketability of the buildings and the site will be nil until this gets more formally resolved. Likewise their title - insurability. Thu...

6 years ago
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RE: Need a copy of SMI Transfer V7

I've got version 7.0i & would be happy to try to email it to you. I'm at: crestong@yorkhillsurveying.com

6 years ago
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RE: Total station data error in topcon.

I think Kevin is on it. I know I've seen files like this from my Topcon TS when I pressed the wrong button either on the TS or in Topcon Link. Topcon ...

6 years ago
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RE: Is RPLS Shutting Down?

Hopefully not this place but another site that POB set up some time ago. Here's that site and its announcement: POB blurb I check that site now and th...

6 years ago
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RE: Learning to say no

My attitude toward new work inquiries comes from a professional poker player I saw interviewed on TV a few years ago. He said "An amateur is always lo...

6 years ago
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