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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: Can Obstructions Below GPS Height affect measurements and calculations

All antennas incorporate a ground plane. Originally they were huge. Now they are much smaller. But they have always been there. I suppose it might be ...

7 years ago
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RE: Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Mo

A couple of people having some fun at Kent's expense. In his defense I say that he would: Find pincushioning just as abhorrent as the rest of us do;In...

7 years ago
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RE: Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Mo

@holy-cow In which case the lowest is still the first set.  Nobody admits to pin cushioning like this. IMO, this mostly happens when the office...

7 years ago
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RE: Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Mo

Presumably the one that is lowest was there first. Not that that really means anything.?ÿ

7 years ago
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RE: Civil 3D training questions compilation

@jt50 For the record, I didn't call it a bug. It's just the way it works.  I would not go as far as exporting to dxf. There is a function calle...

7 years ago
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RE: Topcon GT Series Robotic Instrument - looking for reviews

@leegreen I had no specific idea about rotational speed specs until you posted 32?ø/second. I only knew that it is slow.?ÿ I looked it up after you po...

7 years ago
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RE: Who Owns this Property?

A Right of Way is a form of easement. Calling something a "right of way easement" is redundant. The Country Club retains the fee title here.

7 years ago
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RE: starnet- combining total station measurements and gps control

@danemince@yahoocom Just holding known geodetic points isn't really combining GPS and terrestrial. It is performing an adjustment of terrestrial data...

7 years ago
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RE: starnet- combining total station measurements and gps control

That is certainly not a problem. But what I'm asking is what sort of data you have to feed in at the beginning. You need the StarNet Pro version to co...

7 years ago
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RE: Topcon GT Series Robotic Instrument - looking for reviews

32?ø/second, or about 11 seconds to make a full rotation seems about right for a PS. Against about 3 seconds to do the same thing with a 15 year old T...

7 years ago
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RE: starnet- combining total station measurements and gps control

When you say "GPS Control" what exactly do you mean? Points with geodetic lat/long?ÿ to hold, or actual GPS vectors from such control points??ÿ

7 years ago
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RE: Least Squares Adjustment Training

Let's not get silly. There is a lot of running room between "triple cross tie everything" and having some redundancy in your measurements. And there i...

7 years ago
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RE: Least Squares Adjustment Training

These days when I'm using GPS I'm using RTK exclusively - except for when I'm resolving positions for my RTK base with OPUS.?ÿ ?ÿRTK ,with the additio...

7 years ago
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RE: Least Squares Adjustment Training

You need redundant measurement but it doesn't have to come by traversing. A 2nd RTK vector to the point taken with some time offset would be minimally...

7 years ago
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RE: What were they thinking #2

You say that you wanted the job. A couple of somebody elses wanted it more. Must be some job! What is it about this job that makes people want it so m...

7 years ago
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RE: How do you respond

@thebionicman This fellow was anything but slimey.?ÿ The client was made well aware of the potential issues ahead of time. It was just a method of mak...

7 years ago
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RE: How do you respond

I once worked for a guy who price quoted boundary surveys based on the express assumption that monuments of previous surveys were present in their ori...

7 years ago
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RE: Total station surveying - what do you use your bipod for?

I recommend that you go ahead and make your purchase. You will soon wonder how you got along without it. I use a bipod for nearly all my staking out a...

7 years ago
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RE: As soon as the caller says the phrase...

When I get that call I treat it as an opportunity to do a service to the profession. I assume that I have no chance of getting the job. Instead?ÿ spen...

7 years ago
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