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NCSpiralGuy
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RE: Where do I submit new photos of a benchmark?

So here's how it went. On Sunday, late in the afternoon, I went to RAINBOW and took pictures looking down at it. Then I got out my pole and found that...

7 years ago
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RE: Would a geoid file viewer be useful?

That looks like what I'm thinking of doing; if they're doing it, it must be useful! I'll add a GUI geoid file viewer to my TODO list.My program reads ...

7 years ago
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RE: Would a geoid file viewer be useful?

^That is available only for Windows, and as far as I can tell, it outputs only .geo (which I've read of, but haven't implemented) and .gsf (which my p...

7 years ago
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RE: Would a geoid file viewer be useful?

^I don't see anything in there that I recognize as a source code tarball or an executable. There's a file called "gdb", but it's only 4 kB, way too sm...

7 years ago
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RE: Would a geoid file viewer be useful?

Taveuni is a Fijian island that straddles the antimeridian. I use it as a test case in the program because some GIS software has problems with it. If ...

7 years ago
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RE: Where do I submit new photos of a benchmark?

Bookmarked the Mark Recovery Entry page. DSWORLD is not usable to me; it's a Windows executable and an MSI file, whatever that is. Is the source code ...

7 years ago
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RE: Need help,adjusting GPS localized coordinates to grid coordinates

If the factor is less than 1, the ground distance is more than the grid distance. So to get grid distance from ground distance, you multiply by the fa...

7 years ago
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RE: Do I have a chance to enter profession? (40+)

I was in my 40's when I started taking surveying courses (paid for by the surveying company I was then drawing for). I have a four-year degree in math...

7 years ago
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RE: Tiff Viewer

It makes it not free (as in speech).

7 years ago
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RE: Data Backup

I have a shell script that runs rsync on a whole bunch of directories, including my surveying directory. It copies them to a computer in a city four h...

7 years ago
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RE: Tiff Viewer

Irfanview is not free. The EULA does not allow decompiling, let alone modifying the source code.I just tried a TIFF in a couple of programs. I prefer ...

7 years ago
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RE: Starting out, how can I get work?

Running traverse in a subdivision on Saturday has two problems:*I'd have to call my helper and see if he's available, else progress would be slow beca...

7 years ago
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RE: Bitcoins

Don't buy bitcoins unless you understand how they work. If you can't explain how, for example, to construct a service to authenticate documents and pr...

7 years ago
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RE: Starting out, how can I get work?

^Sorry, I don't understand. Whom at the town would I talk with? One what without a surveyor?I went to three banks (the one where my accounts are is be...

7 years ago
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RE: 1950 Survey Revisited

Are you currently allowed to record surveys in varas? In North Carolina, distances in surveys must be in feet or meters and decimals thereof.

7 years ago
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RE: Starting out, how can I get work?

A Harris, post: 434670, member: 81 wrote: Visit and leave cards at Title Companies and Realtors and Loan Officers at Banks and Credit Unions and Lawye...

7 years ago
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RE: Sending out dwg files

If I digitally signed a file, I would use GPG. GPG can sign any kind of file, not just a DWG. You don't need the application that you open the file wi...

7 years ago
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