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Jack Chiles
Jack Chiles
@jack-chiles
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Joined: July 1, 2010 3:18 pm
Topics: 8 / Replies: 348
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RE: Bellaire Survey goes Bad

Andy, I hope you got paid, even if they rejected your survey.If not, give 'em a call and ask 'em how that second survey is working out for them.

15 years ago
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RE: Recommend GPS equipment?!?!

Finding his property corners is one thing. Setting them is quite another. Actually, I think finding his corners and setting his corners amount to exac...

15 years ago
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RE: Jog in Road (Texas)

Actually, a State, county, city or some sort of public entity which has the legal authority to do so, can "take" someone's land for public usage throu...

16 years ago
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RE: Yet Another Example of a Written Description

UnfortunatelyUnfortunately, the attorney's assistant will write the deed and decide what is included in the description, editing out all of the metada...

16 years ago
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RE: ALTA Pin Cushion

you sent out a signed and sealed plat?In Texas it is a big-time violation of state law to send out a signed and sealed plat without setting the corner...

16 years ago
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RE: Tian't all blue grass in Kentucky

Tain't all blue grass in KentuckyThank God we don't allow for budgetary review in all actions. I guess we should let some people go if it's gonna cost...

16 years ago
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RE: One second gun VS five second gun.. Optics

Generally speaking, each company's instruments all have the same optics for their high accuracy surveying instruments. Leica and Trimble have a higher...

16 years ago
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RE: Where is the Right of Way and who gets to decide?

Larry,Here in Texas a legal doctrine known as "prescriptive rights" exists and has been applied many times to just this sort of problem. If a public e...

16 years ago
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RE: Excavation for station "Chadwick" 1899.

Great job! Gotta love being a detective, archeologist and best of all, a surveyor.

16 years ago
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RE: Architectural extras

Paul, it looks like some elevations are inconsistent. The "top of brick" on the left is shown as being at 83.85' and the FF of the design studio is dr...

16 years ago
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RE: FEMA issue has raised it's ugly head.

Alternate solutionCould you run a level loop from the nearest RM? You'd be absolutely sure that way.

16 years ago
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RE: Township Corner

Township Line - More Pics and cornersNot in baseball or meteorology.

16 years ago
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RE: DO NOT HANDLE!

I guess everyone's seen this one - 9 footerSupposedly a 9 foot rattler. If I'm workin' in the woods, I don't even kill snakes anymore. I used to kill ...

16 years ago
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RE: Easiest and hardest places to survey in the US

Easiest place is the Central Business District of HoustonHouston CBD has a monumentation system in place since 1868. City ordinance mandates the use o...

16 years ago
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RE: More geodetic grid coordinates in land descriptions

A suggestionKent, I think some more metadata needs to be expressed in your document. This is just a personal preference and has no basis in law or eth...

16 years ago
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RE: Nyac Cadastral Survey, Alaska (video blog)

Along time ago i made a promise to myself. "Self, I am never going up off of the ground in a aircraft with less than 2 engines." I have never yet done...

16 years ago
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RE: REQUEST for Subdivision Ordinance specs

David,Please don't request an OPUS derived solution. OPUS is not always right and the NGS has about 20 disclaimers placed all over the site. Just requ...

16 years ago
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