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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: Trimble 5600 Robotic Total Station Setup

@garthw The OP has not posted here in 2 1/2 years. I suggest that you try sending him a PM via this website..

6 years ago
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RE: Construction Of A Wind Turbine

I'd like to point out how unlikely it is that the surveyors doing this work were selected from the phone book on the basis of lowest bid.?ÿ

6 years ago
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RE: Discriminatory job posting (per Facebook)

That would be analogous to advertising for a rodboy. Which I doubt would be well received.?ÿ

6 years ago
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RE: SURVEYOR missed NAD83 by 191ft

@leegreen That is an opinion - one we share.?ÿ But not everybody does. It has been a common practice around here.

6 years ago
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RE: Adding contours to CAD drawings

Paul is talking about creating a void in the surface model where things like retaining walls and building footprints are. His method is one way, and a...

6 years ago
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RE: SURVEYOR missed NAD83 by 191ft

Possibly NAD83 scaled to ground? If so that is not so much a mistake but rather a failure in communication.?ÿ

6 years ago
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RE: How many retired surveyors keep their license active?

I do not expect to ever retire.?ÿ I will cut down my hours, take longer vacations, and be much more selective about what kind of jobs I take. But not ...

6 years ago
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RE: Windows 7 -> Window 10: Time for a new computer

The main reason to do so would be web security. The upgrading itself should be painless. You may find that certain things (Activesync, aka Mobile Devi...

6 years ago
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RE: 4-wheeler topo

Not GPS, but did some experimenting doing total station topo with the prism mounted on a moving remote control toy car. We found that the angles were ...

6 years ago
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RE: Surveyor Christmas Tree

@sergeant-schultz Thanks to Wendell for fixing that. 

6 years ago
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RE: State Plane Coordinates

SPCs determined in 1974 & 1986, would have been done without the benefit of GPS (and maybe even computational software) and based on control, remo...

6 years ago
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RE: Doubling Angles with Robotic TS

I'm not real familiar with SurvCE. But I do have an acquaintance with?ÿ a number of other dc softwares. They all have settings for the order of set me...

6 years ago
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RE: Lump Sum

Dan Beardslee was a proponent of fixed fee. But it only works if the scope is also fixed and the fee isn't rock bottom to begin with.?ÿ It does simpli...

6 years ago
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RE: New GPS Units Tracking Various Constellations?

I recall a time c.2000 that we were shopping for new RTK and data collectors. The Topcon salesman was making much talk of GLONASS, which Trimble and L...

6 years ago
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RE: When the neighbor calls......

My states are recording states, so the survey map is public record. So I'm willing to share the results with anyone, and my map is the best way I can ...

6 years ago
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RE: Theres never been a better time to get GPS

Trimble Access does that. No problem.

6 years ago
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RE: History of the Rectangular Survey System

alibris.com?ÿhas 11 copies of Al White's book this morning.?ÿ

6 years ago
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7 years ago
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RE: Spectra Focus 35 and Ranger 3

@gmpls I picked up a S5/TSC7 combo 3 weeks ago. Yes, it's a load. But a high performing load. 

7 years ago
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