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david-livingstone
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Joined: July 22, 2010 12:44 pm
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Topics: 48 / Replies: 1088
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RE: What would you tell someone ...

I did this about a month ago, except I talked the entire 50 minutes. It was a GIS class but was mostly AG students and geology students. It was actu...

9 years ago
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RE: Anyone have experience with laying out a track

I've done a couple. One was just a cinder track and they were converting from metric to english or the other way around, I don't remember. Synthetic...

9 years ago
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RE: Surveying for Immediate Family

I've done it for my father in law and a brother in law. Its never been a problem. I either did it for free or almost free. I do agree though, if it...

9 years ago
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RE: Plat rules and Grid vs Ground

I agree, they are trying to say horizontal. I almost always show ground distances. A couple of time I have used the distances from state plane coord...

9 years ago
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RE: Anyone familiar with Survey Pro and VRS?

I have one comment, but not answers. If you want data from an actual GPS base point, its not really VRS is it?

9 years ago
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RE: Selective Availability - Again? Well Not really, but a way to make money?

I can't tell if thats real or some kind of joke. How does it help security if you can get a key to turn it off for $10 a month? If its on or off it ...

9 years ago
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RE: Vertical Control

Bill93, post: 420544, member: 87 wrote: Please explain. I thought the most recent official update was Geoid12B several years ago, with a preliminary ...

9 years ago
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RE: Vertical Control

NGS updates the Geoid daily, you just have to know to install the updates! They model high rises all the time.

9 years ago
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RE: Vertical Control

Small world, we have a new employee that is from Nepal. She is 29 years old and her husband teaches at the local university. She told me the story o...

9 years ago
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RE: Vertical Control

I assume, and am pretty sure it was all first order stuff. They came through our town but I never saw them. I think the marks are published on the N...

9 years ago
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RE: Rights of Access for Surveyors

In Illinois we have right of entry. I don't normally contact land owners unless I see them or know for sure they are home. I used to play that game ...

9 years ago
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RE: Vertical Control

In Illinois they actually updated benchmarks with level runs across the entire state. Of course this was done at the state level not the federal leve...

9 years ago
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RE: Field Software Poll

I've been a long time TDS user and like it. I suspect when our current data collector is near the end of its life cycle and we will end up with Magne...

9 years ago
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RE: Vertical Control

Joe the Surveyor, post: 419235, member: 118 wrote: I would also agree that the bench marks on site must work within themselves, that's gotta happen. B...

9 years ago
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RE: Engineers preparing subdivision plats

If the engineer knows what he is doing, I woudn't have a problem with it. I'd probably prefer they give me the layout they want and let me put the be...

9 years ago
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RE: Really weird situation

Did you set the pins or did a crew do it for you? Sorry, I'm thinking the worse.

9 years ago
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RE: Topo blunder

I was having this same problem last week where my rover was trying to pick up a different base, but it gave me a warning when this was happening. It ...

9 years ago
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RE: Topo blunder

OK, I get it. He might have been picking up a different base on a different points. I read it like someone had a base setup on the same base point B...

9 years ago
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