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Joined: July 12, 2012 11:30 am
Last seen: April 14, 2026 8:22 am
Topics: 130 / Replies: 2201
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RE: Question about Driveway

I must be seeing this differently.?ÿ I initially assumed that the OP is buying the parcel with road frontage. If that's the case, then, yes, the driv...

4 years ago
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RE: TDS raw data missing grade, elevation fields in stake-to-line and offset staking

You know, with Survey Pro, you can open the raw/rw5 in notepad or wordpad and do a search/replace for SK, and change to SS, and you can get your eleva...

4 years ago
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RE: Fitting Record Drawing to Field Points

@dave-o This is what I've been using since someone showed me that command in the 90's.?ÿ It's in Carlson w/ embedded ACAD too No idea why you'd nee...

4 years ago
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RE: What's a Surveyor?

@martin_au?ÿ I don't know the breakdown, but I'd guess that the American surveyor population is 99% white male, over 40

4 years ago
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RE: I hate construction staking....

@bstrand?ÿ Absolutely charge for it.?ÿ But most of the time I've gotten, "since you're here, can you layout......"?ÿ I suspect that it's sometimes a...

4 years ago
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RE: "Oh, I had no idea it would cost that much"

@dougie This has been my experience with realtors

4 years ago
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RE: '3rd party' software companies (like MircoSurvey): What's their future outlook?

@bstrand?ÿ Basically, yes, since we have it here.?ÿ When I didn't, I would send a dwg without points, but include a txt file of the points. I've als...

4 years ago
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RE: '3rd party' software companies (like MircoSurvey): What's their future outlook?

@bstrand?ÿ I've said before, I switched to Carlson in 2004 from LDD, and I hated it at first.?ÿ And then I loved it.?ÿ We have C3D where I work, so ...

4 years ago
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RE: "Oh, I had no idea it would cost that much"

@kevin-hines Yup, even if I know that the price has scared them off, I still try to explain what goes into it, that the cost is a function of the wo...

4 years ago
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RE: Bad rod heights

@kevin-hines?ÿ Sorry, Kevin, I was just in a mood.?ÿ The guy after you usually gets me there quick with his somewhat condescending, lecturing tone of...

4 years ago
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RE: '3rd party' software companies (like MircoSurvey): What's their future outlook?

@ncsudirtman?ÿ Perpetual sounds great.?ÿ And they have been around a long time. I've no idea what that software looks or works like, whether it's si...

4 years ago
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RE: '3rd party' software companies (like MircoSurvey): What's their future outlook?

@olemanriver I won't be surprised if ICAD starts becoming more popular soon

4 years ago
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RE: "Most Surveyors Are Bad Boundary Surveyors"

@aliquot?ÿ Neither your "review" nor your personal experience is so expansive that you can come to that conclusion about the profession, and make tha...

4 years ago
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RE: I hate construction staking....

@stacy-carroll?ÿ Pretty much every large construction project I've been on had at least one call where I'm told that our stakes are wrong.?ÿ?ÿ And p...

4 years ago
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RE: Bad rod heights

@thebionicman?ÿ Again, good for you.?ÿ?ÿ But most of us here have decades of experience too.?ÿ There are repetitive things that I probably do that o...

4 years ago
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RE: Bad rod heights

@kevin-hines?ÿ That's awesome But I'm not going to do it, or have others do it, just because of a one time event.?ÿ?ÿ

4 years ago
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RE: Bad rod heights

@thebionicman?ÿ That's exactly what guys in the field need, more mindless crap to do, just to appease the people with the climate controlled environm...

4 years ago
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RE: Bad rod heights

@thebionicman?ÿ Never said anything about NOT taking good notes.?ÿ I said it's stupid to record every rod height change in the field ?ÿ

4 years ago
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