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mkennedy
@mkennedy
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Joined: January 17, 2013 10:55 am
Last seen: August 19, 2026 7:15 am
Topics: 21 / Replies: 663
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RE: Highly Technical, But Non-Surveyor

Partially for work, and partially for personal knowledge. I always loved maps and would navigate my dad to bookstores and motels when my family travel...

4 years ago
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RE: Coordinate System

Looks like it should be MTM zone 1. As @michigan-left pointed out, the scale factor on the central meridian (53W) is 0.9999. The false easting is 3048...

4 years ago
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RE: Help Explaining RMS to LAYMEN

Maybe--another measure for how different their measured coordinates differ from the 'ideal' ones.

4 years ago
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RE: US Survey Foot - State Plane Coordinates

@spmpls You are correct unless using a SPC zone that have false easting or false northing values in the hundreds of thousands or millions. Then the di...

4 years ago
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RE: Not for me but......

GIS: ArcView 9 or latest version. Um. ArcView 9 in this case means the lowest licensing level of ArcGIS Desktop version 9. The latest '9' version was ...

4 years ago
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RE: Ground to Grid Question

@MathTeacher?ÿ Can you please help me understand the difference between 'factor' and 'scale factor'.?ÿ From Oxford Languages:?ÿ factor: a numbe...

4 years ago
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RE: IGLD 1985 to be replaced by IGLD 2020. Tentative release 2025

There are 2 ppt on the NGS website from 2021:?ÿ They probably have similar slides. I didn't look at the 2nd one.

4 years ago
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RE: Cool old description

@kevin-hines The Potomac area would have been woodland tribes and googling implies shorter bows, under 60", with around 50 yard range.

4 years ago
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RE: GIS bone

@mightymoe Knowing how my company's GIS software works, "NAD83" is likely not precise enough. Is it really NAD83 (2011)? Some other realization/readju...

4 years ago
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RE: What do you look for in a resume? What are your thoughts on this as Surveyors, Survey Mangers or ones in hiring positions?

This is not exactly what you're looking for because it's general resume advice rather than the more technical resume that you want to write but I some...

4 years ago
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RE: Upcoming NGS Webinar

My colleague, Kevin, and I are already signed up--we moved our team meeting so it wouldn't conflict.

4 years ago
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