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james-fleming
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Joined: July 2, 2010 7:42 am
Last seen: June 11, 2026 1:49 pm
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RE: What’s a favorite initial point you have visited

The Post Mark'd West Historical Marker

2 years 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 ...

2 years 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

2 years ago
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RE: Broken-back Curves

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

2 years 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 "...

2 years ago
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RE: East is east and west is west

Had a drafter named Kipling who never had that problem

2 years 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

2 years 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...

2 years 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...

2 years 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...

2 years 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 ...

2 years ago
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RE: US Army Corps of Engineers Jobs

TLDR: The sale of your voluntarily supplied personal data. Well, if OPM is doing this, I at least hope they are using the ill-gotten proceeds to pay d...

2 years ago
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RE: Linked In

First some context… I currently work for a 50 +- person woman owned firm that has traditionally been in the transportation construction side of the en...

2 years ago
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RE: Training for button pushers

"you train people for the next level above where they currently are" My cousin told me this was explained to him in Marine Corps OCS as "Always know y...

2 years ago
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RE: Updating Deeds

Same. And some of the jurisdictions go so far as to have the owner's signed statement on the plat contain language similar to "The owner shall record...

2 years ago
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RE: Looks like some changes happened--Colonial vs. PLSSia

Given that this was my first ancestor on this side of the pond, I'm all in favor of Virginia recovering her lost land. William Powell (Virginia coloni...

2 years ago
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RE: Innovation in the industry?

I was talking to the head of a large county department of public works about using SLAM for environmental surveys. Scan a wooded parcel, build a grou...

2 years ago
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