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OleManRiver
OleManRiver
@olemanriver
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Joined: February 13, 2020 8:56 am
Last seen: June 4, 2026 5:18 pm
Topics: 123 / Replies: 2636
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RE: Going to Trimble Dimensions? November 11-13?

Have fun. I have been getting the itch to go back it has been many years since I attended one of those events. I was planning on going this year but...

2 years ago
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RE: Data Management

I think you have a great point as this is a tremendous issue for sure. I think you have a great handle on what I see happening all the time. Back in ...

2 years ago
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RE: Monumenting Lines With Jogs

@BStrand Gotcha. Understood on that. Historically surveyors have been seeking permanent monuments to be placed. However it contains you to be a strugg...

2 years ago
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RE: US Survey Foot or International Foot

This whole discussion brings up a very interesting question. If since Hassler was appointed to standardize all weights and measures that agency has g...

2 years ago
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RE: Monumenting Lines With Jogs

Is it not natural because this is man made? I didn’t look to see if it was a man made berm. I was just reading the toe from his writing. A toe can be...

2 years ago
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RE: NATRF2022

I an already setting up a workflow to be able to test the new datum and software. I will sometimes be doing double work but I can have fun at night d...

2 years ago
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RE: Monumenting Lines With Jogs

Unless he specifically wants that toe monumented. With rebar or whatever. Just let the toe be the monument along the toe etc. I retraced a few bounda...

2 years ago
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RE: Tips & Tricks for field technicians

How to use a spirit level on a traverse kit. How to correctly level that up. How to run a calibration on the robot. When how often. How to locate a...

2 years ago
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RE: US Survey Foot or International Foot

Here US ft for state plane as well. On NAD83 or NAD27. However some old cities and counties years ago went with international feet. Then switchoback a...

2 years ago
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RE: Site plan service?

What do you do when they say it doesn’t match. I will often pull in the shape files for planning purposes only. Gets me in the area. I then use the de...

2 years ago
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RE: Broken-back Curves

I was intrigued by this verbiage and started digging around. So on the engineer side this term broken back is used I had just never heard of this befo...

2 years ago
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RE: Broken-back Curves

I have never heard that term either. Looks to me as if it is two different curves just separated by a short tangent. See a lot of these at small scale...

2 years ago
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RE: Scale Factor

When I was in school in an engineering class road and bridges. The professor made a statement to us students. He was trying his best to attract more o...

2 years ago
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RE: Scale Factor

Could the old monuments not be found. Why did they set new monuments. A section many years ago we were retracing for ROW survey had a nice big disc ...

2 years ago
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RE: Scale Factor

We have always done it that way is a saying that is very much heard in the surveying community. If I had a nickel for every time I heard someone say ...

2 years ago
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