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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: Measuring offset distances from prism pole

points offset to rod(there is something utterly broken about replying to messages, I want to reply to the whole thread like on the OLD, OLD board, but...

15 years ago
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RE: Dual frequency receivers, one or two?

Nope, it'll eat anything. Has the same IGS antenna database as OPUS, too.

15 years ago
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RE: Surveying Literature

I've been trying that one for years. The client still hasn't shown up.

15 years ago
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RE: Dual frequency receivers, one or two?

Most of the pay-for-RTK networks have the actual base station data sitting on an FTP server for free. This is the beautiful side effect of the real ti...

15 years ago
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RE: Dual frequency receivers, one or two?

Combining total station and GPS data in least squares is where the fun begins.You have two independent measurement systems providing a doublecheck on ...

15 years ago
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RE: Dual frequency receivers, one or two?

We live in an amazing time for GPS, thanks to all the real time networks and CORS stations. A side effect of all the RTK networks is their base statio...

15 years ago
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RE: 0.01 feet OFF and related BS

required closure and 4 figures past decimalNever thought of those requirements as being a reason behind the apparent uberprecision on some surveys.The...

15 years ago
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RE: Getting on established control

It does sound like whoever ran the control used a total station and your basic TenThousandLand coordinates system, hence the 1.0 scale factor. All the...

15 years ago
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RE: Serious Question about Money

Haven't made any cake to speak of yet. Low hourly wage here and there and a lot of volunteer work or personal research and digging. Survey field work ...

15 years ago
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RE: Windows vs Linux in the real world.

I've had luck running star*net with a dongle on a vmware player instance of XP, that vmware running on an ubuntu box. that route might work for you.

15 years ago
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RE: What would you like to see inside your survey/level books?

haven't owned an Adapx pen but saw/used one at an LSAW meeting.Seems like the best of all worlds. Paper notes that you don't have to transcribe.My dre...

15 years ago
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RE: adjoiners, occupation, fences, lines.

Half a bubbleNo such promise was made with regard to time or delivery. We did verify that the corners-set-by-others were undisturbed, and that the one...

15 years ago
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RE: adjoiners, occupation, fences, lines.

And back to your previous post, Mr. Zeiss:1. That practices are generally accepted does not always make them the right thing to do.2. I'm the field gu...

15 years ago
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RE: adjoiners, occupation, fences, lines.

Carl, forgive me, I don't mean to attack you personally. I'm just pointing out what I see as a tradesman's attitude that I perceive of the profession ...

15 years ago
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RE: adjoiners, occupation, fences, lines.

Halfgood example of a common law solution. they agreed to let it go.the problem is when a city slicker moves in next door and finds that the discrepan...

15 years ago
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RE: adjoiners, occupation, fences, lines.

HalfGood point, Mr. GunMan. Different situation. More of a Three-S kind of thing. Also, I wouldn't charge a retainer or bid the job even unless I had ...

15 years ago
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RE: adjoiners, occupation, fences, lines.

HalfThanks Kris!Quoting you here:"You can only help those that want help. You can only remedy problems that the landowners want fixed. If they're warr...

15 years ago
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RE: adjoiners, occupation, fences, lines.

The fence guy was bidding, not waiting on the line staking. As for the client with her can of paint, so what? I'm getting to be too old a dog to be ra...

15 years ago
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