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Joined: July 2, 2010 11:18 am
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RE: What does the term "Best Fit" mean to you?

This is from the manual for Dennis Drumm's Primacode Transform: a 2D least squares conformal best fit application that is elegant and useful and gives...

13 years ago
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RE: NCEES exam results question

Given your Lat and Long...huh! Lookin' at maps. Did not know about Pomona, thank you!

13 years ago
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RE: NCEES exam results question

Given your Lat and Long...I emailed NCEES for clarification, and turns out it was indeed the PS exam that I passed. So, WOOHOO! All you other test-tak...

13 years ago
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RE: PPM - Parts Per Million .. what does it mean?

In addition to all the good explanations above, it helps my redneck brain to think of it in relation to traverse closures, kinda like:1 in 5,000 = ...

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RE: NCEES exam results question

OK well I passed it whatever it was !

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RE: Back2Basics: Topo field procedure

Many methods. Shoot a horizontal grid with elevations and piece it together in CAD. A good exercise. Code it in the data collector, taking only the 3 ...

13 years ago
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RE: The dilution of precision (DOP)

The dilution of confidenceIt's not measurements that we sell, it's the confidence in the overall collection of redundant measurements, together with r...

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RE: A better way to measure HI?

The thing that always gets me is reading the inch side of the tape rather than the decimal side, giving a mysterious +/- 0.06' when it happened. This ...

13 years ago
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RE: FS Exam Question

There are a lot more LSITs than people with a BS in Surveying. Not having the degree won't hurt you at the LSIT level. Besides which, you already have...

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RE: Could you, in good conscience...

OP needs to quit surveying, get filthy rich with the investing, and find out that money can't buy the love you used to have. It will take a few years.

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RE: Precise leveling - can anyone explain .....

Many Thanks, Half BubbleI'm keeping my girlish figure on 2 ribeyes a day fried in butter.We used to live on the fat of the land. Since WWII the agribu...

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RE: Precise leveling - can anyone explain .....

Stiff Leg Does Not Neccessarily Mean Single Piece LegA possibly more accessible link: wheat belly blog

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RE: Precise leveling - can anyone explain .....

Stiff Leg Does Not Neccessarily Mean Single Piece Legwheat belly

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RE: Undergraduate Project Idea's

Seems like you would want control near and far, and then resection your scanner occupations from those for the best position & oritentation. Maybe...

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RE: Undergraduate Project Idea's

Off the top of my head:Scan some permanent faces from the same control points in sun and rain and fog and moon. Make some kind of interesting display ...

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