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MightyMoe
MightyMoe
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Joined: September 22, 2010 9:13 am
Last seen: June 5, 2026 2:43 pm
Topics: 989 / Replies: 9551
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RE: How do you combined data types (TS/GPS/Level)?

Everything gets aggregated in TBC, to mesh levels with GPS derived verticals, orthometric elevations are changed for the GPS points from the levels an...

2 years ago
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RE: Another "good" one

Looking at the bearings it appears that it's some type of "true north". Kinda close to the 1914 GLO plat, and SPC should be about 15minutes from "true...

2 years ago
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RE: convert from HARN

HARN is/was GPS derived control of various NAD83 epochs (recalculated following NAD83 shifts). It is still valuable because it consists of physical mo...

2 years ago
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RE: Utility Easement

This thread got really strange.

2 years ago
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RE: Utility Easement

The county condemns the property for a ROW, putting the private property of the utility company into the ROW, the utility company then forces the coun...

2 years ago
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RE: Utility Easement

Not all situations fall under eminent domain, fairly sure an easement for a utility vault or whatever this is will not be one of those situations. Plu...

2 years ago
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RE: Utility Easement

In a more urban/dense residential area private utilities were often placed in ROWs and given franchises/licenses to operate in a public way. But even ...

2 years ago
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RE: Utility Easement

"Aqcuiring private easements for public utilities sounds like a disaster, but hey… government." Utilities will almost universally want to be on the pr...

2 years ago
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RE: Utility Easement

ThatOur utility clients wouldn't accept that. No defined property line, no ties to the right of way for the tract. I'm not sure what type of point t...

2 years ago
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RE: Description by Map only

It depends on the instrument. If it's a formally recognized recorded Subdivision or Certificate of Survey, then the Lot#, Tract # is the way to go. ...

2 years ago
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RE: California Survey Costs

The local city tried to hide behind the GIS disclaimer. The city had made the GIS the official document for zoning (how dumb was that?). A developer...

2 years ago
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RE: California Survey Costs

I'm shocked, shocked that they might fib to me.

2 years ago
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RE: Coordinate file versus raw data file

Raw data into TBC, coordinate values into CAD.

2 years ago
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RE: 5' off

Got it, the surveyor for my client (PE) stopped by the office with his DC and R12i. We were able to set-up in his controller a state plane RTX job wit...

2 years ago
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RE: Fractional Sections, Triangulated

From the plat I'd probably prorate that one in. The option of a mean bearing will create two E-W center lines that won't meet at the section line. Tha...

2 years ago
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RE: What causes GNSS blunders when you have "fix"?

Only see it in heavy canopy these days. In the early RTK surveys, we would see it all the time, in open sky. Those bad fixes might stay fixed for 1/2...

2 years ago
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RE: Fractional Sections, Triangulated

The MT and OG plats are always something I pull like I said above, I forgot to include patents.

2 years ago
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