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john-hamilton
john-hamilton
@john-hamilton
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Joined: September 13, 2010 5:25 am
Last seen: September 15, 2026 3:52 pm
Topics: 409 / Replies: 3051
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RE: Boundary Survey-do I contact the prior surveyor?

Actually, a related question would be if I brought this to your attention, would you call me an idiot and tell me to quit worrying about tenths of a f...

8 years ago
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RE: Geo XH Accuracy

It could (likely?) be a datum issue, they could be ITRF positions. I am not familiar with the Geo, but when I use my R10 with RTX, the positions are s...

8 years ago
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RE: Cleveland Tunnel

We set a new benchmark in 2014 on an AT&T vault in a vacant lot just south of the word "and" in your image, TANGO SIERRA (PID=DQ5331), but I see f...

8 years ago
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RE: Cleveland Tunnel

That looks like Scranton Road under the SR 10 bridge. I do a subsidence monitoring project in the downtown Cleveland area every few years, monitoring ...

8 years ago
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RE: Lazy Monuments

My first job as a surveyor on a government crew was to search for and reference recently set boundary monuments that had been set by a contractor arou...

8 years ago
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RE: Export Level Circuit Data

sighting distance spec is just to each rod (BS, FS), not the sum of the two.?ÿ You need to 1) keep each sight under the spec (70 m for 2-II, 60 m for ...

8 years ago
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RE: GNSS purchase - logic check

Probably talking New Zealand Dollars, so $60K is about $41K US.?ÿ Maybe consider Spectra? I think they will work with Trimble access.?ÿ ?ÿ

8 years ago
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RE: Starnet Level dat file format from differential levels

That is correct. You can also use distance instead of # of turns. But you must set that in the project options. I prefer to use distances (all metric)...

8 years ago
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RE: NGS recovery notes...

Here is one of my favorites...it is a triangulation station, I GPS'd it back in 1988 for a bluebook project.?ÿ KY3089 STATION RECOVERY (2008)KY3089KY3...

8 years ago
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RE: NGS recovery notes...

Oh, I am sure it IS open to the sky for satellite visibility.?ÿ ?ÿ I have also seen the same "good for GPS" on benchmarks set vertically. Yeah, I can ...

8 years ago
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RE: Difference between DGNSS and RTK?

I would say that RTK is a subset of DGNSS. As MightyMoe said, typically standard differential GNSS (WAAS, etc) is about 1 m accuracy. RTK is just a mo...

8 years ago
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RE: Online NTRIP Server

RTK2GO ?ÿ ?ÿ ?ÿ

8 years ago
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RE: Surveying Vests

I use Seco vest, never been able to figure out why the front pocket is not big enough for a standard field book.?ÿ

8 years ago
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RE: RTK-VRS How to detect Multipath

Could be one or more bad base coordinates. Or a CORS antenna that has moved. Although one would hope either of those problems would be readily detecte...

8 years ago
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RE: Number of GPS Vectors in a Complete Network.

The number of vectors possible given the number of receivers is N*(N-1)/2. so, for 36 receivers the answer is 630. The same would apply to possible ve...

8 years ago
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RE: Cause of simultaneous slips shown in Rinex report?

Many years ago in the early days of dual frequency receivers we would get cycle slips on all channels due to nearby radio interference, for example ke...

8 years ago
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RE: Newbies

I don't recall seeing any GPS receivers, survey grade or handheld, that displayed GPS time rather than UTC (i.e. with the leap seconds since 1980 offs...

8 years ago
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