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Joined: July 2, 2010 11:18 am
Last seen: January 16, 2026 1:51 pm
Topics: 103 / Replies: 836
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RE: My survey chariot and signage.

A robot and one set of legs is its own art form!

14 years ago
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RE: Best Surveying Boots

My latest pair is the uninsulated, made in China, Danner Quarry, & they have lasted just coming up on two years, looks like I will get a resoling ...

14 years ago
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RE: What if the iPhone became a high precision GPS device

Hm, gotta figure out a polite way to communicate that $600 is way cheap compared to your expert witness rate when the adjoiner's attorney hires you .....

14 years ago
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RE: OPUS-RS vertical reliability

+/- 0.25ft for a 45-60 minute OPUS-RS occupation here close to Seattle. OPUS-RS elevations are really efficient when you level between them and combin...

14 years ago
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RE: Topcon QS Robot

tracking or powersearch? On the Leica, I mean.

14 years ago
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RE: Research Project -- Need Serious input

Cal State Fresno has a masters program in Surveying/Geomatics via distance learning, maybe that helps. There are very few bachelors programs, hardly a...

14 years ago
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RE: Commie yards and fractions thereof

if it's the wrong unit, it's still wrong no matter what you call its decimalizations! That's why nobody can decide which decimal form to use ... plus ...

14 years ago
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RE: Commie yards and fractions thereof

I'm trying to piece together the pedigree of the commie yard: They were trying for a half-second pendulum but they got their earth radius wrong?I'm st...

14 years ago
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RE: Oblique Mercator transformation

There is still a plain jane Fortran that ships with most Linux distributions and FreeBSD. Your code will probably run with little or no modification.

14 years ago
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RE: Converting KML to SHP

Quantum GIS (free, open source) will probably do it.Maybe also GPSBabel

14 years ago
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RE: I know its been said before...

Found multiple question marks of incredulity. Duly noted.

14 years ago
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RE: I know its been said before...

I agree, that kind of stuff gives surveying a bad tarnish. Unsupervised hourly crews in a hurry are a bad idea regardless of the contract arrangements...

14 years ago
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RE: I know its been said before...

Surveying is being undercut by exactly these work arrangements. Every other industry has been using contract labor for years without any qualms about ...

14 years ago
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RE: Leica Robotic Prism: GRZ4 or GRZ101?

Doubt it. Powersearch really seems to need a full size prism to work reliably. Does your 1100 have Powersearch? Seem to recall it was introduced on th...

14 years ago
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