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john-putnam
john-putnam
@john-putnam
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Joined: February 4, 2011 9:44 am
Last seen: September 19, 2026 3:56 pm
Topics: 82 / Replies: 2381
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RE: Payment Processing Platforms recommendations

Zelle seems to work well. It is run by a consortium of banks and credit unions and seems to be a simplified system for requesting and sending ACH. ...

2 years ago
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RE: iMAX vs. VRS RTK Corrections

Thanks for the info Jim. That really seems match my experience with VRS and Leica hardware. Talk about proprietary.

2 years ago
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RE: Field to office transition

I was fortunate enough to have been hire by a visionary when I first got out of university. He hired two freshly graduated LSITs with the idea to tra...

2 years ago
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RE: iMAX vs. VRS RTK Corrections

I realize that both systems both systems use multiple CORS to best model the atmospheric, ionospheric and other corrections needed to extend the depen...

2 years ago
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RE: Setting up a survey job in NAD83(HARN)

Sonic, Whatever you do, do not bastardize the existing control by applying a site calibration. As others have said, NAD83(HARN) is just a realization ...

2 years ago
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RE: Broken-back Curves

It looks like the term has multiple definitions depending on who is using it. Somehow, I had never heard the engineering use until I started doing so...

2 years ago
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2 years ago
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RE: iMAX vs. VRS RTK Corrections

I prefer the MAX/iMAX corrections over VRS. My main gripe about VRS is all of the 'virtual' CORS you end up with. iMAX gives you a vector from an ac...

2 years ago
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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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