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john-putnam
@john-putnam
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Joined: February 4, 2011 9:44 am
Last seen: September 25, 2026 2:25 pm
Topics: 82 / Replies: 2382
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RE: 4 year Engineering Degree

Remember that next time you turn on you black box GNSS receiver.

12 years ago
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RE: 4 year Engineering Degree

Go Beavs,When I attended, all CE majors had to take a basic surveying course. Hell, even us geoscience / cartography types had to. As a side note, I...

12 years ago
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RE: 4 year Engineering Degree

Brian,Most of the states I'm licensed in are made up of both licensed engineers and land surveyors with a few members of the general public thrown in ...

12 years ago
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RE: shovel not in truck

A couple of years ago the crew had been using my truck. I took it out to lay some photo control panels in the coast range in April. On the way to th...

12 years ago
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RE: combined scale factors for small traverse loops

I assume that Civil 3D will do an adjustment on the grid. Why apply a combined factor? Why not just work in the actual state plane coordinates and s...

12 years ago
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RE: EC on Barn

Pricing querySame price, but that is not an issue with the client. It might have been cheaper if the client requested it at the same time as the hous...

12 years ago
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12 years ago
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RE: Adobe Competitor is STRONG

Nuance's software allows me to digitally sign.

12 years ago
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RE: Prism is fogged up

I don't think I have ever seen a Leica prism fog up. And I've been working in the great northwet for the last, this really hurts, 25 years. One reas...

12 years ago
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RE: WHY AUTOCAD COSTS SO MUCH

> No. 8: Autodesk> Median salary: $128,000> Number of employees: 7,300> Sector: Business services> Headquarters: San Francisco> >...

12 years ago
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RE: Upsetting Problem

Not being licensed in Kentucky I can not speak specifically to you laws. The first thing I take from your post is that the individuals providing this...

12 years ago
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RE: Google Earth and Lat/Long accuracy

> > To make a long story short, I have a client that says a "point" I staked is in the wrong place because it doesn't fall in the right place on...

12 years ago
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RE: R.R. and utilities = insanity

The class 1's I work with have a simple way of dealing with this kind of problem. The local utility company brings the power to the right-of-way at w...

12 years ago
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RE: Filson Survey Rig

The Raptor is a hell of a pre-runner but I'm not sure how great of a work truck it would make. Although you could get from job to job pretty damn qui...

12 years ago
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RE: Pics from the Field/Road

The pin cushion thing is one topic, but what about contractors paving over the monument in the first place. It seems to me that the county should req...

12 years ago
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RE: Leica TCA 1100 ~ prism

> I am looking for a (hopefully affordable) small or mini prism for my Leica TCS 1100 that will utilize the same 0mm offset in my TDS Ranger settin...

12 years ago
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RE: Webinar regarding US railways

I tried to register but it is full.

12 years ago
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RE: Illinois prevailing wage *Update*

Does PW mean union member?> I don't understand the issue from the society's view or the owners. Billing rates reflect wages paid at a pretty stand...

12 years ago
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RE: Illinois prevailing wage *Update*

Does PW mean union member?> If PW is a requirement, whatever the classification of labor, whatever the rate, does this mean a person automatically ...

12 years ago
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