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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: excel data to create point data

I've been doing F2f in one form or another since 1993. Doing F2f greatly reduced the need for detailed field sketches, and the advent of Google Earth ...

4 years ago
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RE: Updating an ALTA with final comments

You could quite easily cool your jets by the pool for 3 days, and then draw a polygon inside the trash enclosure. Charge liberally. While you are at i...

4 years ago
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RE: Work flow idea need cad experts input

What you propose will probably work but it is not the approach that I have used. I'll check the raw data and reduce the coordinates in the adjustment ...

4 years ago
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RE: No stakes?

Fewer jobs for hub pounders, more for digital model makers.

4 years ago
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RE: Manual Relating to Surveys and Surveyors

I suggest that you volunteer to be the one to digitize it. I've put entire textbooks on the office scanner. It takes around an hour to do a 200 page ...

4 years ago
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RE: Constructing Staking

"Construction Staking" comes in a lot of different flavors. I've done my share of the subdivision development type and I'd rather not do any more.?ÿ B...

4 years ago
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RE: Question about ethics of a Surveyor

I have no problem with the surveyor meeting with "Tom". It is quite normal for a Surveyor to meet and talk with people in the neighborhood to find out...

4 years ago
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RE: RTK distance from CORS station

Long ago I was told that baseline length limit for rapid static vectors is 20km. This because the atmospheric conditions are assumed to be the same at...

4 years ago
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RE: What would you do if forced to retire?

Develop a 90 minute talk on my surveying experiences and go on the conference circuit Pursue my original intention of becoming an engineer possibly ge...

4 years ago
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RE: winter work pants with elastic waist

I use these Carhartts over my regular clothes. I've had the same pair for 6 years now.?ÿ In the PNW water and wind proofness is everything. It doesn't...

4 years ago
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RE: Office Software for Trimble & Carlson needs

Starnet will read data from all those sources, and others, and simultaneously adjust it. But that is all it does - least squares adjustments.

4 years ago
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RE: PS Exam tips

1001 is obsolete and out of print. It is now sold in updated form as Surveying Solved Problems. Make the investment. Brown's Boundary Control & L...

4 years ago
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RE: Add a name to this list

I can't believe that we have got to page 3 of this thread without anybody mentioning Kent McMillan.

4 years ago
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RE: Oregon Proposed Rule change

It does. But I aver that licensing of surveyors would not exist in the first place were it not for boundary surveying.?ÿ

4 years ago
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RE: Oregon Proposed Rule change

Two thoughts: One, I've always thought that the 4+4 or 12 yrs experience only was a good compromise setup. It is all the in between arrangements that...

4 years ago
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RE: Oregon PLS needed ASAP

Looking at the company's website it is my guess that they are looking for someone to take over for a retiring LS.?ÿ?ÿ

4 years ago
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RE: Units of measurement - Angles

@aliquot?ÿ Iƒ??ve said it before. Metric is easy. Flipping back and forth between feet and metric day to day is a PITA.?ÿ

4 years ago
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RE: Is it unethical and a conflict of interest to perform my own survey?

If you get to parsing the words of a Code of Ethics statement you have missed the point.

4 years ago
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RE: Is it unethical and a conflict of interest to perform my own survey?

Oklahoma Society of Land Surveyors Code of Ethics: .... a Professional Surveyor should develop and communicate a professional analysis and opinion wi...

4 years ago
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