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NCSpiralGuy
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RE: Surveying terms in Spanish

Hay aztecas, guatemaltecas, zapotecas, e hipotecas. :DIt looks like the word I'm looking for is apeo, though it also means "scaffolding" and other thi...

8 years ago
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RE: Surveying terms in Spanish

Peter Ehlert, post: 415173, member: 60 wrote: "fraccionamiento" is "subdivision" as in a neighborhood development, a lot is Loteyou can have a lot wit...

8 years ago
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RE: Surveying terms in Spanish

Thanks y'all, keep'em coming.Does "fraccionamiento" cover a single lot carved out of a larger lot, or only splitting a big tract into many lots of app...

8 years ago
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RE: Surveying terms in Spanish

So New York is the Big Block? I heard just "cuadra" when I was in Colombia a few weeks ago. But "contiguous set of lots bounded by streets" and "set o...

8 years ago
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RE: My New Helpers (Pics)

I don't have any horse or cow stories, but once I was at a traverse point called "reget point", and I sent my helper up the hill to find the next poin...

8 years ago
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RE: Rebar mangled by mower

I should have said that the ground was still frozen. It's thawed now, so I went out with the GPS system and the coordinates, but the data collector di...

8 years ago
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RE: Rebar mangled by mower

Well most of the site is back in the woods, and I have to take a private gravel road to get there. I saw a survey crew today, but it was next to the m...

8 years ago
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RE: Rebar mangled by mower

^Because it may be evidence of an old boundary. I'm going to get the positions of the other ends of the split rails (not today, my data collector is o...

8 years ago
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RE: GSF header format

If you have used that code to make a non-square file and it worked, it confirms what I thought.If you're reading an ASCII file, why do you have this c...

8 years ago
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RE: Operating systems

I run Kubuntu Xenial and use bare ARES Commander for drawing. I'm writing my own survey CAD program, but it's not usable for drawing yet.

8 years ago
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RE: Vicinity Maps

When I was drawing surveys in Charlotte, we did mostly subdivision work. Each subdivision plat had its vicinity map. Different maps in the same subdiv...

8 years ago
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RE: Confusion with Distnacing

is where to get the recent and finer geoid file. The old one is a 15-minute grid. I haven't tried running the Fortran programs; they don't come with M...

8 years ago
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RE: Confusion with Distnacing

At 39å¡N 22å¡E, the geoid is 33.3 or 33.2 meters above the ellipsoid, depending on which geoid model you use (those are two different NGA files, the p...

8 years ago
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RE: Hi from North Carolina

The gun is always in a padded backpack, except when it's on the tripod or connected to the computer.

8 years ago
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RE: Surveying the neighbor's improvements

I've drawn a few surveys that show a neighbor's house, sometimes with an eave to show whether it's encroaching. I don't know about situations where on...

8 years ago
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RE: Hi from North Carolina

cwlawley, if you're in Charlotte, I'm the guy with the board and some angle irons in the back of the pickup.Here's one thing I ran into on this survey...

8 years ago
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RE: The 20 biggest lies we hear

The corner is next to the end of the guy wire. (I searched and found no such iron in the ground. I computed the position from the adjacent monuments, ...

8 years ago
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