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

My biggest complaint about local officials is that they never answer their phone, and never return calls. Call the planning department, ask for so and...

6 years ago
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RE: bad coordinates

The districts that I have worked for/with all have a survey department of some sort, and all their projects have mapping called the "Monumented Projec...

6 years ago
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RE: Legal Description Wording Format

I have no issue with either method, and I see and use both often. Out of curiosity, how do you handle a situation where you need 2 or more courses to ...

6 years ago
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RE: OPUS

The last partial shutdown started over a weekend as well, and as I recall opus was available until the next Monday. I'm assuming with the holiday it w...

6 years ago
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RE: Hewlett Packard - 3820A Total Station

I've got one in the "museum of surveying junk" out in the shop. It's a very low serial number as I recall, practically single digit. As a collector of...

6 years ago
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RE: ALTA Certification

To be able to sue you, someone must prove that they have standing to do so, by having been harmed by something shown on your survey (presumably an err...

6 years ago
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RE: He thought he'd outsmart me I guess

Seems to be no penalty here for taking a client's money and providing no service (based on stories I hear from clients who hire my competiton and then...

6 years ago
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RE: He thought he'd outsmart me I guess

I don't put sticks on pc or pt corners at all. I dig them down about a foot, and leave the holes open with plenty of flagging on them. The city inspec...

6 years ago
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RE: Odd thing happened, points staked about 4.5' off

I have on a few occasions had a similar issue. I loaded design coordinates into the controller, and then remembered to apply the combined factor. The ...

6 years ago
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RE: Regulation and Ethics question

If they were trying to set their own speed limits, minimum wage, or osha regulations everyone would know the correct answer. I don't see this as being...

6 years ago
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RE: Aluminum Boundary Post

I spent some time tracking them down the other day just to get a price for a quote. Glad I could save you the agrivation of trying to figure out how t...

6 years ago
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RE: Ring Ring

I generally assume just about everything needs to be recorded.

6 years ago
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RE: Ring Ring

It's in RCW 58.09.090, I won't quote the whole thing because it's extremely long & boring: (iii) The presence of any physical evidence of encroach...

6 years ago
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RE: Grrrrrrr...

In Washington it's spelled out quite well: ?ÿ RCW?ÿ58.04.015 Disturbing a survey monumentƒ??Penaltyƒ??Cost. A person who intentionally disturbs a surv...

6 years ago
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RE: The survey tool we all need

Imagine how easy it would be to follow the footsteps of the original surveyor if you could just go back in time and see what he did & where he set...

6 years ago
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RE: Cursive writing & Land Surveyors

My dad, a retired PLS, and my sister, a current elementary school teacher, have this debate all the time: Dad: "How are any future surveyors going to ...

6 years ago
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RE: Calculator DIY repair

I've used this guy for repairs before with good results.

6 years ago
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RE: Trimble R8 Model 2 GNSS with Trimble TSC3

Do you still have this setup for sale??ÿ

6 years ago
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