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john-putnam
john-putnam
@john-putnam
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Joined: February 4, 2011 9:44 am
Last seen: June 6, 2026 1:13 pm
Topics: 81 / Replies: 2353
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RE: Is this allowed?

"This is not the survey you are looking for." -Obi-Wan Kenobi

2 years ago
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RE: US Survey Foot or International Foot

The SPCs are all defined in meters (along with most published LDPs I'm familiar with). In most survey programs the units don't matter since they are ...

2 years ago
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RE: Broken-back Curves

"Colloquiallisms in general, are meant to make you sound wise, confusing or both." I think we have different definitions of the word. Colloquialisms ...

2 years ago
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RE: Broken-back Curves

After doing a little google search, it seems that engineers use term to describe two curves separated by a small section of tangent. They seem to be ...

2 years ago
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RE: Broken-back Curves

I've always heard it used, and used, to reference non-tangent curves.

2 years ago
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RE: Scale Factor

Still using my old Defense Mapping Federal Credit Union account. Okay, the name has changed but not the account number. Fond memories of the good old...

2 years ago
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RE: Bridge Deformation Study

John is spot on. Unfortunately, every monitoring spec I see now days is for 0.001'. Every time I see it, I have to educate the engineers that you mi...

2 years ago
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RE: Grid vs Ground Coordinates

Overall, this is another great video. I would make a few comments. First, you can almost always be certain that the metadata will be lost as soon a...

2 years ago
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RE: F-ing Banks

Yeah, We are slowly changing our personal banking to a FCU that I have been a member of since the Gulf War. When the other bank left town the pulled ...

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

I don't have a problem with east/west but left or right is another story. I can definitely blame that on spending my youth looking through an instrum...

2 years ago
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RE: NATRF2022

Mr. OK, We had an Oregon Administrative Rules steering committee meeting for the NATRF2022 / Oregon Coordinate Reference System in July. The purpose ...

2 years ago
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RE: Looking for references for a telecom PE consultant

Peter, Message me & I can give you the contact info for a CE I do a lot of tower design with. Well, more like a contact with a contact. John

2 years ago
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RE: C3D 2024

They are backwards compatible util they are not. The CAD portion is always backward (but not forward) compatible, it is the C3D data that is sometime...

2 years ago
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RE: Contractor Setting Pins

I've probably told this story before, but when I was a young pup my PC & I were charged with checking (post construction) monuments another crew h...

2 years ago
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RE: Triple check your final work projects

I have become found of using Word's ability to read my documents back to me. It really helps the typos as well as just plain old readability. I usua...

2 years ago
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RE: C3D 2024

I'm leaning towards 2025 (99.9%). My main concern was compatibility with my clients and stability. For some reason I thought I had heard 2025 would ...

2 years ago
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