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mathteacher
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Joined: June 15, 2013 9:58 am
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RE: smartphone or analog or whatever

What I did when faced with the same problem was to buy an HTC 526 at Verizon for $89.00. Unrestricted as to plan, no contract, do the data however you...

10 years ago
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RE: General Typology of Surveying Firm Names

That's pretty sound. At the heart is a professional providing a service and earning a living by doing so. There's nothing wrong with maximizing profit...

10 years ago
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RE: General Typology of Surveying Firm Names

Kent McMillan, post: 377826, member: 3 wrote: Per Wikipedia: "The history of Bank of America dates back to October 17, 1904,[1] when Amadeo Pietro Gia...

10 years ago
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RE: General Typology of Surveying Firm Names

Oops, I see that you didn't jest. Really have to watch that merger history.

10 years ago
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RE: General Typology of Surveying Firm Names

Surely you jest. Bank of America began life as Bank of North Carolina in Greensboro, NC. Had the locals taken it seriously, Greensboro, rather than Ch...

10 years ago
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RE: General Typology of Surveying Firm Names

You know this stuff applies beyond surveying firms. After reading these posts, I'm moving my banking from Bank of America to Wells Fargo. What could b...

10 years ago
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RE: NC vs SC Boundary being fixed

South Carolina charges a lower per-gallon tax on gasoline and a higher property tax on automobiles than North Carolina. So folks who live in, say, Gas...

10 years ago
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RE: State Plane Coordinates & other subjective comments...

That's probably true. I look at scale, elevation, and combined factors as indicators of the amount of error that would be present if no adjustment wer...

10 years ago
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RE: State Plane Coordinates & other subjective comments...

Loyal, thanks for cutting to the chase and correcting me with a clear example from Montana. The scale factor on the central parallel is quite obviousl...

10 years ago
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RE: State Plane Coordinates & other subjective comments...

We have to be clear with what we mean by "grid factors." I haven't looked at central Montana, but I suspect that the Scale Factors will fall between 0...

10 years ago
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RE: State Plane Coordinates & other subjective comments...

Right, Loyal and Moe. To go from ground to ellipsoid, multiply ground by elevation factor and to then go from ellipsoid to grid, multiply that result ...

10 years ago
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RE: State Plane Coordinates & other subjective comments...

Loyal, as usual, is pretty much on target, with one little exception in the good old state of North Carolina. NC is really big enough north to south t...

10 years ago
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RE: One for the statistics brainiacs...

Correct, everyone, but let me ask you this. If an instrument is rated at 20" but consistently produces 12" results, is it a 20" instrument or is it a ...

10 years ago
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RE: One for the statistics brainiacs...

But that didn't exactly answer your question. Just as people do win lotteries with odds approaching 300 million to 1, it is possible that a surveyor c...

10 years ago
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RE: One for the statistics brainiacs...

Suppose you make one observation with an instrument that produces measurements whose mean error is 3 seconds. The error in that measurement might be 1...

10 years ago
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RE: Surveying in the rain...

Javad needs to design and sell something like this.

10 years ago
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