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jhframe
@jim-frame
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Joined: July 1, 2010 10:44 am
Last seen: June 7, 2026 12:57 pm
Topics: 464 / Replies: 7002
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RE: MOUNT DANA (HR2738)

How old is that avatar pic, anyway? It's pretty old, at least 10 years. Not much dark hair left anymore. 🙁

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RE: Screen Shots in Lieu of Field Notes

In my case, it may have helped that the judge and I had spent many hours together in the bleachers watching our sons play baseball. That, and the fac...

3 years ago
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RE: Screen Shots in Lieu of Field Notes

The whole time, I'm trying to subtly indicate to the attorney that he needs to ask me I'm not that polite. When an opposing attorney balked at my ...

3 years ago
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RE: Boundary question

Unless there's some ambiguity in the map dimensions that require extrinsic evidence to resolve, I'd hold the map monuments and dimensions. It's *pro...

3 years ago
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RE: Screen Shots in Lieu of Field Notes

With regard to screenshots: while I don't often need to refer to them, I like the Javad convention of automatically storing a screenshot at the begin...

3 years ago
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RE: Screen Shots in Lieu of Field Notes

I still carry a field book, but for the most part all it has is job numbers, dates and a bunch of instrument heights and manhole dips. Occasionally I...

3 years ago
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RE: Quantum Navigation

An article in the New York Times (warning: paywall) alludes to this technology that's being developed by the Aussie firm Q-CTRL. They claim 100x imp...

3 years ago
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RE: New FEMA Elevation Certificate

[email protected] is the address that sent the response.

3 years ago
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RE: Phone etiquette

I rarely answer my phone these days -- I get far too many spam calls. If it's a known caller and I'm expecting the contact and I'm not standing in th...

3 years ago
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RE: New FEMA Elevation Certificate

I contacted FEMA and asked them to remove the restrictions. I got this in response: Good afternoon Jim Frame, Thank you for your email out the re...

3 years ago
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RE: Unable to find a surveyor for the past 9 months!

Could you give a ballpark range on a typical price + premium? I'm in CA, not NC, so I have no way of knowing what rates are like there, let alone t...

3 years ago
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RE: Unable to find a surveyor for the past 9 months!

The law of supply and demand hasn't been repealed. Want faster service? Offer to pay a premium fee. There are probably more than a few "too busy" s...

3 years ago
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RE: How to Organize Survey Data

With a Google account, a super simple way is to use Google My Maps I found this intriguing, so I looked at My Maps to see if I can make productive ...

3 years ago
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RE: Transit Notes

I've been on the rod end of a few plane table stadia surveys, but never on the instrument end -- I was still too far down in the chain of command (i.e...

3 years ago
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RE: How long does it take?

Find the property corners, tie the house to the boundary, and draw the house. No wonder I didn't understand it - that kind of survey pretty much do...

3 years ago
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RE: How long does it take?

A good party chief should be equipped with a COGO-CAD program running on a tablet. Any simple 2-D survey should be 90% completed while in the field. ...

3 years ago
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