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RE: Compound Curve Calculation Help

> I agree 100%. I gave answers for the PC station plus 1/2 of the arc length for the PI station.> > The review packet is 98 pages long. My po...

11 years ago
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RE: Compound Curve Calculation Help

There are several elaborate formulas in many of the various reference books on route surveying, but with the data given for this problem, by the time ...

11 years ago
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RE: Compound Curve Calculation Help

Delta Curve 1 = 54°31'55.5" -- Total Delta = 107°17' -- Delta Curve 2 = Total Delta - Delta Curve 1 = 52°45'04.5"

11 years ago
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RE: Tiffin's Instructions of 1815

Land Survey Systems by John McEntyre also contains Tiffin's Instructions.

11 years ago
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RE: Is it possible to layout a radius w/out using a radius point

degree of curveIsn't the deflection angle for 100' for a 1° curve, 0°30'?

11 years ago
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RE: Is it possible to layout a radius w/out using a radius point

Degree of Curve x 0.3 will give you the factor for 1' of deflection, i.e. for a 1° Degree Curve = 1 x .3 = .3, for 25' of arc, the deflection = 0°07'...

11 years ago
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RE: Surveying problem

5050.0649 Easting is what is on the original drawing that was posted by Mike, or rather posted by Kent. Which also is on the drawing I downloaded from...

11 years ago
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RE: Surveying problem

What I get from my plotted drawing from point 8 to the line 1-2 is 39.985'.From all indications the 40' Min. is a floater distance from the Westerly L...

11 years ago
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RE: Surveying problem

Dave:How come? Rectangular/Polar using the angle 26°35'54" and a hypotenuse distance of 44.734' gives a perpendicular or h distance of 39.99968 footie...

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RE: Surveying problem

Kent:Yep. Using the 40' Minimum at the Point 1 & Point 8 corner area you have a parallelogram with all 4 sides being equal, which will give both a...

11 years ago
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RE: Surveying problem

I could have tweaked this a little, but the 40.04' meets the 40' Minimum.

11 years ago
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RE: Surveying problem

Point 12."Maybe 12 is the PI of the entire arc, just guessing, though." Dave Karoly PreviouslyHis deduction appears to be the only logical response re...

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RE: Surveying problem

> > Is point 7 the intersection of the arc and line 3-9 produced?> > > > What is point 12? It appears to be on line 1-2 produced.&g...

11 years ago
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RE: Surveying problem

[sarcasm][/sarcasm]> > Hi folks,here is latest surveying problem,www.scsurveyjac.org/16.html. Here is my idea:Please refer to dotted lines from ...

11 years ago
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RE: Clark on Surveying and Boundaries, Eighth Edition

I guess I'm kind of in the middle, as I have only the Third and Fourth Editions plus the ICS "Fundamentals of Law For Surveyors".

11 years ago
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RE: Vehicle charge out rate...

RADU:In 1975 when I sat down to figure out as best I could what it was costing for me to operate the vehicles used in the business. A four-wheel drive...

11 years ago
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RE: Monuments

> In your state if you recover a monument (pipe, rebar, ect) that is unmarked and you accept it for a survey, do you have to apply your number to i...

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RE: ALTA Table A

> We've just gotten two contract to do two ALTA surveys. They want us to start right away, but they can't tell us what the Table A items will be. ...

11 years ago
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RE: How Cold is too Cold?

HP 3800 series> If I remember the 3800 was the "dial-in" model, wasn't it? Did a lot of work with one of those. Did a lot of work also with the lat...

11 years ago
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