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RE: Surveying and GIS (for the practical and efficient surveyor)?

Hire one GIS tech (I hired a college kid in need of intern credits), purchased the basic or standard ESRI software and hold off on extensions until yo...

10 years ago
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RE: Project Manager, Surveying or GIS near Western Maine

Bethel is where I grew up and where I am settling down. I own a house about 50 minutes from LA and was hoping to get work there. I just received an of...

10 years ago
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RE: Starting a survey business questions

I just got a quote from Maine Technical Source for a brand new Leica Ts12 Robotic total station, a Carlson Surveyor 2,SurvCE 2016, Carlson 2016 deskto...

10 years ago
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RE: Autocad do you use pen assignments?

I prefer lineweights by layer as it ultimately allows for more control over color schemes on both the desktop and in color prints.Ctb made sense a dec...

10 years ago
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RE: Retracing an unrecorded survey

clearcut, post: 373025, member: 297 wrote: So, what I'm hearing is if an airline pilot found out another airline pilot was incapable of safe flying, b...

10 years ago
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RE: "Quality" ?

Wow, $7,240 in fines! I bet he won't commit fraud again. It is becoming more and more difficult for me to respect licensure. I too dislike the title o...

10 years ago
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RE: Valuing a Survey Business

My former company owned a massive amount of unrecorded plats in northwestern NC. I asked the county registrar if they would be interested in scanning...

10 years ago
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RE: So- they told me this week that I'll be getting a Ford Escape instead of an F150 extended cab...

My former company gave us a Mercury Mariner Hybrid as the survey chariot. Same thing as an Escape except it did not have the ability to reverse up an...

10 years ago
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RE: Carlson F2F & Alpha-Numeric Points

It's not an elegant solution, but you could always export your linework as a dxf from SurvCE then import it as a block in Carlson without specifying a...

10 years ago
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RE: New England stone walls along roads

The myth is that it protects the public to research back to the King's grant, find a one mention of the road being 4 rods and then declare that a long...

10 years ago
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RE: Zoning

I think zoning would work if individual land owners within a zoned municipality were required to attend one Board of Adjustment meeting per year. Expe...

10 years ago
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RE: Triangulation, and other forgotten skills

I used a bastardized form of triangulation to locate a wild bee hive for a bee keeper. Usually you just sight a bee flying to its nest, take the bear...

10 years ago
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RE: What control points do you use?

6" mag nail with plastic washer set just below grade. Mag nails no washer in asphalt. I do mostly rural surveys and feel that the potential to confu...

10 years ago
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RE: Attorney requested ALTA revisons

On the flip side, I recently submitted a monstrous ALTA of a series of condominiums and didn't hear a peep from the attorney. At first I was patting ...

10 years ago
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RE: Where does the profession go from here?

I don't understand this idea of "one product." A man calls me and says he needs a survey. I ask him what has happened in his life that makes him fee...

10 years ago
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RE: Helping Another Surveyor

If a licensed surveyor calls asking for a specific plat I would extend them the professional courtesy of providing it at no cost. From your statement...

10 years ago
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