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john-putnam
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Joined: Feb 4, 2011
Last seen: Nov 17, 2024
Topics: 72 / Replies: 2078
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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 ...

1 month ago
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RE: Broken-back Curves

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

1 month 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...

1 month 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 ...

3 months 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

3 months 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...

3 months 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...

3 months 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...

3 months 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 ...

3 months ago
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RE: OPUS BETA-S 5.0.0

Thanks for the heads up. I'll set a receiver up behind the office and give it a try in the next couple of days.

3 months ago
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RE: Contractor Setting Pins

I'd really think about letting the contractor's board know what is going on.

3 months ago
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RE: Spiral Curves Blah

The given radius of a spiral is equal to the radius of the of full curve at one end and infinity at the tangent end. The spiral equation then creates...

3 months ago
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