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dave-karoly
@dave-karoly
Joined: July 1, 2010 8:15 pm
Topics: 633 / Replies: 11368
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RE: Please excuse my Dear Aunt Sally

Learned this one at age 17. Bill93 and some others will recognize it. Big Boys Race Our Young Girls But Violet Generally Wins. There are other v...

2 years ago
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RE: BLK360 Data storage

I don’t know about the Blk but the RTC360 stores data on a special USB flash drive that comes with it. Then I copy the data folder onto my laptop comp...

2 years ago
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RE: Plane coordinate problems

@mathteacher they do???what am I missing? In the 1930s they had transit and tape, they used SPC to be able to use triangulation stations and do their...

2 years ago
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RE: Put me in coach....

@james-fleming tradition is peer pressure from dead people.

2 years ago
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RE: Home in Coral Gables

"Whether or not they lived happily ever after is not easily decided." -last line of The African Queen (novel), C.S. Forester

2 years ago
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RE: Anyone familiar with these quotations?

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.

2 years ago
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RE: Startup Business Advice

Dave Industries International, Inc. Geomatics and Mapping Division We also have a cabinet and wood products manufacturing division.

2 years ago
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RE: Things that make me want to scream

Similar: 1947 Subdivision. Map works very well mathematically. Civil Engineer does 2 corner records on adjoining lots (they are curvey and complica...

2 years ago
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RE: Party chief Survey, test questions

1. With no other information (maybe an accompanying sketch?) multiply distance by scale factor. It is likely that you are supposed to divide since sc...

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RE: Impromptu math lesson.....

@holy-cow good grief he started a fire and the helped put it out. Sounds llike he missed his calling and should have gone i to that p word. Create a p...

2 years ago
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RE: Cyclone scanning software question

@dave-karoly Your statement on extra care in field is 100% correct. And that pertains to any survey not just scanning. If correct field procedures ar...

2 years ago
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RE: Cyclone scanning software question

If they collected targets from each scan then Cyclone is fairly quick and easy, if you know how to navigate the weird Cyclone workflow. If there are m...

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RE: Impromptu math lesson.....

The base10 log of 1/2 is -0.3010300 the base10 log of 2 is +0.3010300. In other words change the sign of the log of any number to get its reciprocal...

2 years ago
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RE: Impromptu math lesson.....

Reminds me of a discussion with my 16 year-old granddaughter a couple of days ago. She is taking AP Physics, where they have introduced imaginary num...

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RE: the processing begins..

Pix4D did 30 hours one time, 625 images. It was when we just started working at home and I only had my field laptop, it was a higher end but not works...

2 years ago
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RE: Members Map

I added my location but it didn’t show up on the map. The last name of the songwriter is the name of the town I live in: ”Sometimes I wonder why I s...

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RE: Thursday puzzles

The cat thing is ambiguous. Do three cats catch a total of three rats or do they each catch 3 rats?

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RE: Survey Note

Northern California: shiner Southern California: tin San Bernardino: flasher (not kidding, pages and pages of field notes referencing flashers kind ...

2 years ago
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RE: Who Originated the Acronym COGO?

Before computers it was called traverse computations done on preprinted Traverse Sheets.

2 years ago
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RE: Surveys, Guns, and Racism ... Oh my!

I’ve used acres.XXX since the 1980s, just habit I guess. Until one day a surveyor 2 steps above me in the executive suite went on and on how horribly ...

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