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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: Blast from the Past GPS

My first experience with GPS was c.1997 with Leica 300s (not sure of the model #, but it was the series before the 500s). Almost exclusively static fo...

7 years ago
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RE: GTS-825A FOR SALE

I've never used a GTS-825A, so I don't have an opinion of it. A little googling tells me that it is of c.2002 manufacture. I found another for sale at...

7 years ago
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RE: Dying Breed

I'm now on Book 20 of a series started in early 2016. I keep sketches of control and boundary tie networks and detailed descriptions of found monument...

7 years ago
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RE: Broken old tripod

A clever woodworker could reproduce the wooden parts.

7 years ago
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RE: Tripod question

Allen Precision's blurb an these includes "A cost-effective alternative for TPS instruments with angular measurement accuracy above 5" .?ÿ In other wo...

7 years ago
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RE: Leica GST20/120 vs GST101; why pay more?

The "self closing" arrangement on the GST 120-9?ÿ is worth whatever it costs, IMO.?ÿ I can't think of any reason to buy any other Leica branded option...

7 years ago
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RE: Buying my first robotic total station - Trimble S5 or Spectra Focus 35 or...?

I think that you will find that the S5 is a higher quality instrument than the Focus35, and Access is better software than Survey Pro. The extra money...

7 years ago
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RE: Overcome, Adapt, Improvise

My earliest survey jobs, we never had any lath. A branch would be cut and milled with a machete. The top would be pointed and plumbed over the point (...

7 years ago
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RE: Are all Land Survey's Recorded?

My reading of Section 8762 of the California Business and Professions Code tells me that a ROS could be avoided if everything is found to be in substa...

7 years ago
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RE: Dealing with more responsibility at your job

@cameron-watson-pls True, just changing seats makes no difference. But a person isn't asked to change seats in this way until he has proven his worth....

7 years ago
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RE: Mortgage Survey Gone BAD

I very much doubt that we are talking about an ALTA. This is your garden variety Mortgage Certificate.

7 years ago
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RE: Survey Pro V6.4.1.19 Basemap Issue

One thought is that your on-board memory might be nearly full. Another is that these things benefit from an occasional complete resetting and reloadin...

7 years ago
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RE: Hiper or SP80

@mapper6683 First, what I currently use is largely the product of choices made by others.  That is a pair of Trimble R8s' run with Survey Pro. I...

7 years ago
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RE: Hiper or SP80

I have always said that a person should shop for data collector software and then buy the hardware that comes with it. So which works better with your...

7 years ago
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RE: Check backsight in Access showing errors

The fact that this is happening in the heat of summer makes strong sun on one side of the instrument a strong candidate.?ÿ Yes, that can definitely ca...

7 years ago
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RE: Today's Pincushion...

Notorius pincushioners have good reputations in your area?

7 years ago
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