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Mark Mayer
Mark Mayer
@mark-mayer
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Joined: July 21, 2010 9:32 am
Last seen: August 3, 2025 1:00 pm
Topics: 54 / Replies: 3317
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RE: Buying my first robotic total station - Trimble S5 or Spectra Focus 35 or...?

That's not real. It is true for the part of it that identifies the individual prism from others that might be present.?ÿ But the real beauty of the ac...

4 years ago
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RE: Pittsburgh Bridge Collapse

Wow. It seems that the question why it fell is answered. Now we have the question of how it was allowed to remain in use.?ÿ

4 years ago
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RE: BRx7 vs. Javad

OH! Right. What was I thinking?

4 years ago
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RE: BRx7 vs. Javad

That's a huge thing.?ÿ The Carlson dc will run your TS as well. The Javad would have to vastly out-perform the BRX7 to overcome that.

4 years ago
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RE: Civil 3D Point Description Coding

@ryancj31?ÿ Your answer lies in the "Linework Code Set".?ÿ

4 years ago
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RE: How to Hire a Surveyor

I'm in the Portland area but am also licensed in Washington. $5k may be above average, but it isn't out of range. Every neighborhood is different. An ...

4 years ago
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RE: Building layout issues

You seem to be answering your own question. Working in UTM - when done correctly - would introduce scale effects on the order of 1 in 2500, or about 0...

4 years ago
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RE: The Goldilocks Price

I should add that if your hourly rates realistically cover your all your costs - including paying yourself for your time plus a fair profit margin - t...

4 years ago
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RE: Newbie Looking for software

Loading coordinates in your GPS and staking lots is relatively easy. Knowing what coordinates to load is the tricky part.?ÿ?ÿ

4 years ago
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RE: 2022 PLSO (Oregon) Conference

But perhaps not surveyed as well as it could have been? IDK, but Lettow might have prevailed if they had had another surveyor have a crack at the boun...

4 years ago
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RE: 2022 PLSO (Oregon) Conference

I was sitting in on J.B. Stahl on Wednesday and there was quite a lot of talk about boundary line establishment - ie/ honoring fence lines as boundari...

4 years ago
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RE: Interstate Highway Separation of Property - Oregon (Exclusive Farm Use Zone)

The fact that the tax mapping does not show it as separate tax lots is highly suggestive that the lots remain a single entity, which cannot be sold se...

4 years ago
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RE: Answer the #@*% phone when it rings

I'm with the Sarge. I get way too many spam calls to be answering random numbers. Leave a message and if you are legit I'll call back.

4 years ago
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RE: How do you handle SPC on your projects?

I do feel your pain. Incompetence is everywhere.

4 years ago
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RE: surveyors records

Do you mean the work of a government agency surveyor, or work done by a consultant for a government agency? When I say that the surveyor owns the dat...

4 years ago
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RE: How do you handle SPC on your projects?

I no longer live in the world of SPC. I live and work in Low Distortion Projection-land. Yes, In a perfect world people who scale SP would document th...

4 years ago
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RE: surveyors records

@jacavell?ÿ Tony Cavell puts it very well. The surveyor owns the data. The clients gets use of it, typically in the form of a map. ?ÿ ?ÿ?ÿ

4 years ago
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RE: Cases for New Field Codes

In my field coding system I have a "miscellaneous waterline feature" code for such things. And similar codes for all other types of utilities. I'd exp...

4 years ago
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RE: Use of a claw hammer

The 4 lb engineers hammer, an Estwing, is the largest I carry. No big sledge in my truck. The 2 lb "drilling hammer" gets the most use.?ÿ

4 years ago
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RE: Changing companies questions

Your situation, your skill level, is not all that unusual for a person with your time in service.?ÿ There is having 6 years of experience and there is...

4 years ago
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