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james-fleming
@james-fleming
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Joined: July 2, 2010 7:42 am
Last seen: June 11, 2026 1:49 pm
Topics: 289 / Replies: 5444
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RE: Your Marketing Success

My procedure Targeting work type - check Identifying those who need it - check Cold calling them - That's a negative Ghost rider, the pattern is...

9 months ago
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RE: Legal principles - Exceptions

You got me. But in his slow country voice Mike VanSant once said to me when we were discussing a boundary determination "Now Jim, that pipe is there ...

10 months ago
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RE: How to do a topo for a Specific Contour Interval

Every EIT needs an experienced surveyor who's not afraid to look him/her in the face, early in their career, and say "are you f***ing stupid or what?"

10 months ago
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RE: APWA Utility Colors

@norman-oklahoma Purple is the "official" APWA marking color for "slurry, irrigation and reclaimed water" It's important to remember that most marki...

10 months ago
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RE: Legal principles - Exceptions

A pet peeve of mine is how in some survey texts and educational classes the "Rules of Construction" are overemphasized when the courts clearly have sa...

10 months ago
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RE: Legal principles - Exceptions

I would say.. not necessarily. The principle that "ambiguity in a deed should be resolved in favor of the grantee" comes from a contract law rule o...

10 months ago
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RE: Want to Buy Skelton Boundaries and Adjacent Properties

To clarify my "the value of Skelton isn't as source material" statement. I feel it's probably one of the 2 or 3 the most important texts in my develo...

11 months ago
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RE: Topographic Survey Requirements in WA

This is how Maryland handles it: (1) The results of a topographic survey shall clearly show the results of the field and office work and shall be pr...

11 months ago
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RE: Want to Buy Skelton Boundaries and Adjacent Properties

For me the value of Skelton isn't as source material; it's in the way the author approaches thinking about the application of common law. So much o...

11 months ago
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RE: Mapping Negligence

As long as my firm is yearly doing $800K+ of ramp survey and design... God bless ADA compliance consent decrees

11 months ago
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RE: CONTOURS DOWNLOADS IN SAN FRACISCO BAY AREA

Real Estate: Location, Location, Location GIS: Metadata, Metadata, Metadata

11 months ago
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RE: ALTA showing proposed billboard

I've never had any stakeholders that rely on the ALTA ask for proposed improvements (that's averaging preparing or overseeing 8-10 a year for the last...

11 months ago
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RE: Montana exam

A favorite quote from my faculty advisor in college: “Few fallacies are more dangerous or easier to fall into than that by which, having read a give...

12 months ago
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RE: Water Frontage?

This could very well be a state specific real estate marketing question as opposed to a surveying question. For example, not every bedroom is a bedroo...

12 months ago
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RE: ALTA Parking Garage

Concur with all the posters above... Footprint of the building, parking space tabulation

1 year ago
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RE: Station and offset or bearing and distance

Was this the one in Hagerstown...I didn't think the SHA guys were going to get out of there alive. That's where the Appalachian Chapter of MSS acquire...

1 year ago
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RE: Do surveyors ever measure across water

I always tell people that I changed my major from architecture after I failed Arrogance 101

1 year ago
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RE: Only the oldtimers here will recognize the tie to a certain Arkansawyer

@landbutcher464mhz I was laying out a water tower a decade or so ago and the arrow on the plan set showing the angles between the anchor bolts read "S...

1 year ago
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