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MightyMoe
MightyMoe
@mightymoe
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Joined: September 22, 2010 9:13 am
Last seen: June 8, 2026 9:25 am
Topics: 989 / Replies: 9552
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RE: It's Plotting Sideways!!

Yes, it's common, it's always been the plot area and the scale are just enough off to make it turn. Sometimes it's the view or window, sometimes it's...

2 years ago
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RE: Trimble Access - Poor Precisions

@WA-ID Surveyor I was told early on that the systems running machine control needed to calibrate, I've also been told that more recent systems can han...

2 years ago
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RE: Trimble Access - Poor Precisions

It's 2024 and there are videos for surveyors on how to do a site calibration? I started watching and thought it was 1996 again. As far as the observ...

2 years ago
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RE: Large Project - Large Relief. How to setup multiple scale factors

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say there is interesting Geoid Model topography to deal with for this one. I was checking a local area and the geoid he...

2 years ago
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RE: Basal cell carcinoma (skin cancer)

I've got the big floppy hats, and I go to the dermatologist once a year. They always find something to hack off. So far, no cancer. It's interesting ...

2 years ago
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RE: Traffic Study Extortion

Well, he won and now he gets to go back to court.

2 years ago
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RE: Large Project - Large Relief. How to setup multiple scale factors

Shawn, I'm afraid that option is not available once Math Teacher's excellent question was answered. 2.4 miles is too short a distance to make it wort...

2 years ago
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RE: Official City map vs iron pins

As a binary question: Does the road width on a plat of 60' override the found monumentation on the ground showing 50'? Original monuments are king, th...

2 years ago
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RE: Large Project - Large Relief. How to setup multiple scale factors

It is possible to design a TM that will have grid scales that kinda follow a slope east-west up the mountain if it's a more or less even slope one way...

2 years ago
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RE: "Railway" vs "Railroad"

I'm a railroad guy. Even all the files they sent me are filed under Railroad ROW's.

2 years ago
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RE: Client Privilege

Some love to gossip, some loathe to. Hire the loathers. And it's not only client information that can make that type of person toxic.

2 years ago
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RE: Client Privilege

It's vitally important. Keep work to yourself. It's easy anyway, surveying is booorrrrrinnnnnggggg. Nobody wants to listen to stories about it, or gos...

2 years ago
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RE: Large Project - Large Relief. How to setup multiple scale factors

At the upper and lower elevations it will create 50 ppm of "error", or 0.50' in 10,000'. If that's too much you can do two zones which will1/2 that er...

2 years ago
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RE: EC and LOMA

That's what I figured. And the new forms took more than a couple of hours, even with my fast computer there was lots time watching a spinning wheel t...

2 years ago
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2 years ago
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RE: Court says drone pilot can’t offer mapping without NC surveyor’s license

There are certainly changes that are pushing out traditionally reserved tasks from surveyors to others. This will continue to create conflicts. Mappin...

2 years ago
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