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Larry Best
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Joined: Oct 12, 2010
Topics: 58 / Replies: 677
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RE: Another example of a dream turned into a nightmare

That looks a lot like the subdivision in Marshfield, Massachusetts where I bought (3) 20' x 100' lots in 1975. There was very little monumentation, no...

2 years ago
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RE: Fitting Record Drawing to Field Points

From what I see, Carlson Deed correlation makes you choose a single point to rotate to that then has 0.00 residual. SurvCE Align treats all points equ...

2 years ago
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RE: Greetings to all from a wannabe independent surveyor

Of course. Why would an engineer have any respect for someone not smart enough to be an engineer. I worked for 2 engineering companies. At both I was ...

2 years ago
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RE: M&M factory accident

@holy-cow?ÿ ?ÿ ?ÿ He climbed out three times to take a pee before he finally drowned. That man had real class

2 years ago
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RE: Where Everyone from

St. John, United States Virgin Islands ?ÿ

2 years ago
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RE: Do you also do topographic surveys?

I have done lots of topos. I used wildsoft F2F in the 80 but haven't used it since. I'm sure it's better now, but I think it would slow me down too mu...

2 years ago
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RE: Fitting Record Drawing to Field Points

In SurvCE you ADD source and Destination point pairs. You can choose to scale source points or not. Just coordinates, no angles or distances. I want o...

2 years ago
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RE: Fitting Record Drawing to Field Points

SurvCE?ÿ ?ÿ Transformation > Align does this. You can see the residuals and turn off the big ones. To be used with discretion of course. Can anyone...

2 years ago
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RE: GLONASS, GNSS, Ukraine

I remember reading a few years ago that Javad was moving a lot of it's research to Moscow. Lot's of brilliant mathematicians there, I think. Anyone kn...

2 years ago
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RE: So, this is pretty humilating...

I don't understand how it is that as a measurement professional, I have so much trouble cutting a 2x4 to the right length.?ÿ

3 years ago
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RE: What percentage of your time is divided among the various survey tasks? How many do you need in a crew>?

25 years ago before any us here were using robots or GPS, a asked the owner of a 10 person surveying co. what he thought of a 1 or 2 person business. ...

3 years ago
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RE: Water woes in the west

My water comes from rain into a 15K gal. cistern that probably added to $30K to the cost of the house. Water trucks run all the time taking 3K gals. t...

3 years ago
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RE: Leica TCA1105plus: Error 255 and Error 200

I have a Lecia TCR 1105 (reflectorless -not robotic) that I bought from Foggy on Beerleg. I can't use it?ÿ as?ÿ it won't talk to a data collector and ...

3 years ago
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RE: Deeds that dont close, due to rounding numbers

?ÿ I would never adjust for some of the reasons above, but here's where it might help: If you found the 2nd and 2nd to last points and used them to l...

3 years ago
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RE: Is it just me?

I start with 1, 100, 200, 1000, etc. It occurred to me a few years ago that this was wrong. Maybe some fine day I'll change.?ÿ

3 years ago
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RE: 1/2 survey?

From my personal experience and from reading this board, when trying to explain surveying issues to an engineer who has an interest in not understandi...

3 years ago
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RE: Recent Geomax experience

1-1/2 years ago I went from a manual TS with SurvCE and a I-man to just me with a Zoom 90 and SurvCE. I couldn't be more pleased.?ÿ

3 years ago
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RE: Temp(?) Ortho in Carlson

Carlson 2020 OEM?ÿ ?ÿ Not for me

3 years ago
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RE: What percentage of your work involves climbing through thick brush or fields?

It's called "catch 'n keep" here. It has hooked razor sharp tiny thorns that grab clothes or skin. It's not everywhere, but there's a lot of it. An ho...

3 years ago
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RE: My new Wild T2

This takes me back. Mid to late 70's I was hired through an employment agency so I got paid more than the chiefs that had been there for years and wer...

3 years ago
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