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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: Sighting targets after resection setup

The resection solution will have residuals in all the measurements - including the angles. In other words, the post-solution angle to whichever of the...

5 years ago
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RE: Drunken surveyors and Montana

@holy-cow?ÿ I think that oldpacer's point is that if the boundary had been established as intended both Butte and Helena would be in Idaho -leaving B...

5 years ago
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RE: Definition of Geomatics

Geomatics /??jŽ????madiks/?ÿ noun?ÿ See Surveying

5 years ago
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RE: The definition of UAS / UAV

Part 107 defines an Unmanned aircraft as "an aircraft operated without the possibility of direct human intervention from within or on the aircraft", a...

5 years ago
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RE: OR and WA HISTORY YOU SHOULD KNOW

@dougie?ÿ I had never heard of Preston "losing his position", ie/ being fired, before. I had always assumed that he had just gone back home for perso...

5 years ago
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RE: Plat Narrative

Wow. Just ....?ÿ wow.

5 years ago
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RE: OR and WA HISTORY YOU SHOULD KNOW

@ruffbrew?ÿ I visited the stone last Saturday afternoon, for the 2nd time in 26 years. I had the place completely to myself. It is a 5 minute walk on...

5 years ago
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RE: Listening to surveyors argue

I've never quite satisfied myself as to whether the north of NAD83/GPS is the same as the north of any emphemeris. Or of any other flavor of NAD83. Or...

5 years ago
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RE: ROW vs Property Line Corner POBs

There is no pat answer to your question. To determine the boundaries of your property I would want read your deed description and the descriptions of ...

5 years ago
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RE: Long Backsight or long resection

The first concern is always eliminating blunders. It is the blunders that get you in trouble. Lack of precision can be a bit embarrassing but that is ...

5 years ago
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RE: Typo of the day

@dougie?ÿ Had a guy write in the field book that he was having trouble with the "tribe rack".

5 years ago
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RE: GNSS Baseline Boundary Surveying

These linear closure based specifications are archaic. If your state laws continue to use them the law should be amended. But, in the mean time, it is...

5 years ago
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RE: Old books and equipment

There is a market for the textbooks. Not a lucrative one, except for first editions. but a market.?ÿ ?ÿDonate them to a used book store and they will ...

5 years ago
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RE: Original Monuments....That Aren't

@scott-bordenet?ÿ There are several such references in Brown. In my 1st edition of BC & LP is found: Principle. In a lot and block description, ...

5 years ago
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RE: Prisms

Leica's literature states that the copper performs best for the wavelengths that EDMs emit. Celestron's (astronomic telescopes) website talks about th...

5 years ago
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RE: Transforming NAD 83 to present day GPS

@ashton?ÿ I'm not at all certain about this.... but autonomous positioning from GPS will be WGS84, the latest realization of which is WGS84(G1672). S...

5 years ago
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