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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: Transforming NAD 83 to present day GPS

There isn't really a question here.....

5 years ago
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RE: How to Adjust a Side Shot

@field-dog?ÿ It appears to me that Jim does have a handle on what you are doing. No worries. Putting a points on line between 2 control points of a ...

5 years ago
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RE: Advice from surveyors....

Wishing the best for your brother. First thing to do - business wise -?ÿ is to contact the clients who you have made commitments to and explain the s...

5 years ago
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RE: lithium

Those cowbell batteries are just a package for lead-acid units. Really simple and cheap to re-cell. That is probably going to be a lot less hassle.?ÿ ...

5 years ago
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RE: Story Stakes for coordinate values?

Could it be the centerline intersection point of 2 alignments?

5 years ago
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RE: New Career Need Help

@jhickman?ÿ Better build quality and first to introduce new features. Generally better network of dealers / service. You may pay a bit more up front ...

5 years ago
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RE: Hiper or SP80

@dmyhill?ÿ The "Hipers" I was referring to were "Hiper Lite +" of, I think, 2005? vintage. Heavy like a boat anchor. Bought from the dealers rental p...

5 years ago
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RE: New Career Need Help

1. There are a number of guys posting here who are solo operators making a very nice living at surveying. I'll defer to them, but I'd say that it is v...

5 years ago
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RE: Another Steve Lehto classic: House on Wrong Lot

@mightymoe?ÿ In British Columbia property corners must be staked with an iron bar and a triangular cedar guard stake, which is painted white and left...

5 years ago
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RE: Another Steve Lehto classic: House on Wrong Lot

@james-vianna?ÿ We have rural land and a (presumably) absentee owner. Under those circumstances it might be considered normal to only visit his prope...

5 years ago
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RE: SurvCE ASCII Import Failure

Opening the ascii file in Excel sometimes makes a doubled comma or stray alpha character evident.?ÿ If that doesn't help I'd delete the file type def...

5 years ago
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RE: Create Section Corner Position Using Only Accessories

Given that there are 3 references a least-squares solution is appropriate. Carlson has a function for exactly this problem. If nothing else you can dr...

5 years ago
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RE: Not enough stations for a resection - can I create another one like this?

What you are proposing to do is to merely extend/densify the resection control. No problem with that. But when you stub out control you should tie it ...

5 years ago
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RE: Setting a PK nail on a busy road.

@jitterboogie?ÿ Better you should recycle them. Life is too short to screw around with junk. That's what?ÿ I did with the ones I found -along with so...

5 years ago
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RE: Setting a PK nail on a busy road.

@field-dog?ÿ The chances that I am wrong are about 1 in a thousand. I'll wager those odds. When MAG nails came in PK nails disappeared almost overnig...

5 years ago
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RE: The idiots from Timbuktu strike again

@holy-cow?ÿ The owner of one of the outfits I worked for in OK would state at the beginning of projects exactly how much profit he was taking from th...

5 years ago
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RE: Setting Good Control For Large Building Layout

@chris-bouffard Exactly. You set your control well off-site where it stays safe, then set you instrument in whatever location is convenient for the d...

5 years ago
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RE: A little PLSS quiz

For #16 - if the corners are found in substantial agreement with the last recorded OCCRs the surveyor need not file any new forms.?ÿ I'm not sure, bu...

5 years ago
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RE: Laser for Inverts

@ct?ÿ Look for a model that does "indirect measurement". That is Bosch speak for correcting the slope distance to vertical (or horizontal) by applyin...

5 years ago
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