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Joined: January 19, 2011 10:31 am
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RE: Do you follow the rules?

Sometimes it is impossible to do so. State statute requires a blank 1" border on ROSs. County rules require the ROS number and geolocation informati...

13 years ago
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RE: Back2Basics: Long BS & Short FS

> When running a traverse, I try to make the least amount of set-ups as possible, while tying to keep the legs as balanced as possible. Why is bala...

13 years ago
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RE: Recent Supreme Court Case

> It is amazing how many government agencies willfully violate laws because they know that either no one will challenge them or, if challenged, the...

13 years ago
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RE: Engineering in a tail-spin....

> I just received a new project on my desk to start the process to request the electronic data from the engineer. Did a quick review of the plans a...

13 years ago
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RE: How do you buy a survey instrument?

> Was on the phone with a salesman the other day, wanting information on a tribrach adapter. "...60 inch level vial...."> > "60 inch?"> &...

13 years ago
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RE: Learning Dirt Quantities

> Way we used to do it by hand was to topog the stock pile. Establish contours at one foot intervals and then use the techniques of average end are...

13 years ago
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RE: Learning Dirt Quantities

Be aware the average end area method is only mathematically correct on straight alignments. In curves, the "outside the curve" volumes are overestima...

13 years ago
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RE: POLL...EDMI corrections

> The watch is solar powered and also sets itself every night from WWV, very handy having all this on the wrist! A few other useful tools too such ...

13 years ago
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RE: State of Surveying

> I have often wondered how many people job-hopped for higher wages since many companies simply could (would?) not keep employees up with the cost ...

13 years ago
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RE: LS Degree based on experience, Ted Madson?

>> And yet, it's supposed to be all about assessment. One is tested over and over in a college curriculum but there is no comprehensive test re...

13 years ago
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RE: next gps week rollover

I operated a Trimble 4800 on an NGS station during the last rollover; no detectable problems.

13 years ago
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RE: How far is really far?

18 miles using a Tellurometer CA-1000 with the big horn antennas.

13 years ago
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RE: A rather unpleasant discovery

Had that happen to our crew in the seventies. Just a skull visible. Turned out it was native american remains of uncertain age. It appeared the vic...

13 years ago
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RE: Salt Lake County, UT - Subdivision plats

> The subdivision plats would be in the Salt Lake County Recorders office. It's an online system but not free. [. . .] I think it's $100 to sig...

13 years ago
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RE: Manual of Instructions 2009

> Land Survey Systems by John G. McEntyre gives a good documentation on the rectangular system and -->its'<-- evolvement.Typo!

14 years ago
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RE: Just BASIC

Borland's Turbo Pascal and then Delphi from the get-go. Probably written 20,000 lines of code for various purposes. I like it because it's strongly t...

14 years ago
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RE: 3-Point Resection (by distance)

> . . . Most all cogo softwares should be able to do this, and as someone said, you could do it in AutoCAD. I am sure there are softwares for ...

14 years ago
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RE: Who owns what and where?

Mike> Is it possible for us to read about that adjudication?The point is: monuments, not geodetic coordinates, control parcel boundaries.

14 years ago
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RE: Who owns what and where?

>> who had operated on the assumption that their property lines move with the landslide instead of remaining in their pre-slide locations — a b...

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