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With that many years of experience I hope you are aware that contracting for construction layout requires a professional surveying license in many sta...
Email sent, posted here in case there are any other military surveyors reading this board. I've had several in classes and shared this information wi...
It's a delicate danceAbout 1980 had a client that was an excavation contractor and ran a salvage yard for heavy equipment and Mack trucks. That combi...
Several years ago I had a basic surveying class out running a mile long level loop. Part of that loop crossed an open field adjacent to an eight foot ...
History of MSHA and predecessor MESA their safety programs date back to 1950s.
You may be able to request inclusion in the mining operation training programs. During the 1970s I was in charge of the safety and environmental prog...
Worked on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects 1991 - 1996 with CAD (Intergraph/MicroStation) word processing and database files being the required d...
Former employer, Columbus State Community College, has an online AutoCAD course, ARCH-1112-W01-73764 Web Basic CAD Drafting, starting 10/19. Schedu...
Appears to be a data file format change/update. Simply applying GIS to international mapping of territorial boundaries. [sarcasm]What could possibly ...
> [sarcasm]That's a lot of work... maybe it'd be easier to change the boundary.[/sarcasm]Remember this is not far from where the Hatfields and McC...
Having worked the Ohio, West Virginia area I would take that conversation very seriously. I would inform both the local police and his attorney. Als...
> The mule is an awesome survey rig. 4 wheel drive with articulated steering. If you get stuck just pick it up and move it over. Really wish I coul...
> i miss my gamma goat.... I never had to worry about the paint job on that thing....> :-)Well this is a bit much for a survey ATV. You could c...
> I have my data collector set to only record RAW data as measured (none). > > Then when I reduce the RAW data in the office to generate coor...
Old Days! ! ! !Eastern Ohio coal fields 1978 narrow (9 ft lanes) state highway. Tractor-trailer hauling coal stopped and weighted with portable scale...
> I had a walk-in looking for a price to survey a dozen or so 'parcels' that the Title Company wouldn't touch. They turned out to be fictitious par...
Don't forget to create a breakline along the top and bottom edge of all potholes and take several shots in the bottom of each.
> The discussion of the phantasm of the "paperless office" left me wondering exactly how much digital storage a surveyor would need to keep, say, t...