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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...
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...
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...
The law of supply and demand hasn't been repealed.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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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. ...
From what I can tell that's a FM antenna Yep. KDVS, the UC Davis campus radio station got that antenna 10 years ago. It's on a tower at the count...
I've done a couple of antenna orientations to FCC specs (1° of arc), but both antennas were visible from the ground, so my approach isn't applicable t...
What would be the circumstances that you would want to do that? In order to display the image, it has to get uncompressed in RAM. The compressed s...
Any popular file format, including TIFF and RAW will be compressed Not necessarily. The TIFF specification allows for 3 different compression sche...
In my experience with monitoring well surveys, local accuracy is more important than datum accuracy. When characterizing aquifer slope and direction,...
Most Surveyors I know have enough sense not to mess with the IRS. I agree, as long as by "mess with" you mean "don't engage in tax evasion," as di...
My understanding is that JPG is compressed using an algorithm that results in some (though not much) loss of fidelity, whereas TIFF is uncompressed. ...
I don't use UHF much, as most of my work area has good cell coverage. But I do carry an 8' piece of 3/4" gas pipe that has a pole point on one end an...
I can't help with JMT (do your receivers have the required OAF?), but there's a Windows Explorer add-in that allows you to convert jps to RINEX for OP...