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james-fleming
@james-fleming
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Joined: July 2, 2010 6:42 am
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RE: Lets see some good examples of field notes

Somewhere I found a PDF of this online and have used examples of it for a while now

4 weeks ago
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RE: Strange (to me) ALTA practice

I've had it happen before, but it wasn't on a standard commercial property. It was for 3.5 miles of old RR right-of-way that a municipality was tryin...

4 weeks ago
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RE: radar is missing

@holy-cow Daryl Moistner

4 weeks ago
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RE: New Here: Need Guidance on Surveying

I plan to run a side hustle selling boundary lines in 0.04' increments.

2 months ago
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RE: Rhetorical Question

Came here to say this.

2 months ago
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RE: Appropriate procedure or not

Off topic but... I once worked for a firm that owned the records of an older, well-established, surveyor who working in the area for decades and me...

2 months ago
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RE: 7.3 earthquake off the coast of Eureka, California / tsunami warning

Saw this on twitter between two friends (in PA & OR) PA: "Paul, do you live near the coast" OR: "Not yet"

2 months ago
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RE: Would it make sense to have a 3D Laser Scanning forum?

@totalsurv I'm your huckleberry. Doesn't make sense (for me) because with the current traffic on the site I don't ever look at individual forum...

3 months ago
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RE: What’s a favorite initial point you have visited

The Post Mark'd West Historical Marker

3 months ago
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RE: Going to Trimble Dimensions? November 11-13?

My liver is still recovering from 2010 when I went as editor of Professional Surveyor - the Trimble marketing team back in the day could put away the ...

4 months ago
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RE: Broken-back Curves

I assume the PCC is point of compound curve but based on the diagram it’s a lie?Point of crunched curvature

4 months ago
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RE: Broken-back Curves

This is the situation I've heard described as a broken back curve....

4 months ago
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5 months ago
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RE: Deed History & Jr/Sr Rights

3. Do you do your own research in house or order title work? There is a great quote (paraphrasing) by Don Wilson, maybe in "Boundary Retracement" or "...

5 months ago
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RE: East is east and west is west

Had a drafter named Kipling who never had that problem

5 months ago
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RE: What to do with calls for off line monuments along a senior line?

I treat them as closing corners...until it's time for them to not be closing corners

6 months ago
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RE: Triple check your final work projects

About twenty years ago I was at a large firm and walked into another surveyor's office. There was a mylar subdivision plat on his desk ready for final...

6 months ago
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RE: Training for button pushers

While there has been a lot of very good suggestions, none of it is very useful if the button pusher doesn’t know what he or she should be measuring to...

7 months ago
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RE: Using HP35S with DMS

When I took the Maryland test in 2003 I was exempt from fundamentals, took Principle and Practice, Maryland Law and Maryland Engineering and I could u...

8 months ago
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RE: Virginia State Specific Exam

so far it takes the cake for being the least applicable to land surveying Spoken like someone what hasn't take the Delaware exam - that was basically ...

8 months ago
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