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OleManRiver
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Joined: February 13, 2020 6:56 am
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RE: History of Surveying in Virginia and old regulations etc.

Have you seen my grammar. LOL. My wife who has had to review some papers for me would kill me if I told her I was writing a book. I do love history...

2 months ago
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RE: Since "getting stung" was brought up...

I could have saved him the running lol. I learned at a young age how fast they could track a .22 bullet. LOL. I reckon I did just about every dumb th...

2 months ago
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RE: Scale Factor

Scale factor or combined factor or project factor. Also what is your false northing and easting. I usually carry out to 8 or 9 places. On combined fa...

2 months ago
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RE: History of Surveying in Virginia and old regulations etc.

Thank you. Oh sometimes well many times I can’t sleep. So I just find some rabbit hole to keep my mind going. I like history and have almost read al...

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RE: This discussion post has been deleted.

That’s an easy excel formula. It’s an inverse. But some states I know North Carolina geodetic survey has an inverse calculator on one of the web brows...

2 months ago
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RE: History of Surveying in Virginia and old regulations etc.

Yeah I have been going through some of that for sure. Just slow lol.

2 months ago
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RE: Since "getting stung" was brought up...

They can surely get you. I took a dare as a young buck and decided to shoot a hole in a hornets nest hanging in a tree once. I was not very far away a...

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RE: Grid vs Ground Coordinates

Yes I agree. It should not matter if you scale about 0,0 or a point on site and if you truncate. GIS people should if given the location scale and all...

2 months ago
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RE: Tips & Tricks for field technicians

Please please teach them how to keep an orderly set of level notes. They should also do a simple check at the end of that set of notes add up the BS r...

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RE: F-ing Banks

I had to do the same thing. I use NFCU for personal. My farm is with a small local bank. I can call and they respond. But the online portion and apps...

2 months ago
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RE: What other Job besides Surveying can get you stung?

LOL. I actually am planning on that having some bees when we build our new house on the farm. But yellow jackets no way lol.

2 months ago
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RE: What other Job besides Surveying can get you stung?

This whole incident has made me realize why I am not into drugs. I am taken Benadryl and I cannot stand the way it makes me feel. I feel like my mind ...

2 months ago
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RE: Grid vs Ground Coordinates

@bc-surveyor I liked your video just had a chance to watch it. A couple things. One the 1:10000 was not for grid and ground distance. That was for the...

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RE: Well a topcon made it in the Muppets Show

Well now you are dating your self LOL. To this day I still loved the whole interface of the wild digital transits. Even the first total stations were ...

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RE: Grid vs Ground Coordinates

Very very nicely written. However attached is a snippet of a NGS data sheet elev factor scale factor combined factor. I do wish they would reword the...

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RE: Grid vs Ground Coordinates

Very well written. I could only add that so many make the mistake of when pulling the combined factor from a NGS data sheet that NGS always publishes ...

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RE: Grid vs Ground Coordinates

I like that. I don’t believe there is no such thing as ground coordinates. Only way my brain can state them is if we measured all along the slope of t...

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RE: What other Job besides Surveying can get you stung?

Yeah they can get you for sure. I was home all day yesterday with ice pack on my lips as they were so swollen I could barely eat. I have been hit a l...

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RE: Well a topcon made it in the Muppets Show

I don’t know. The wild t1000 was one tough digital transit with top mount edm. Light weight and never died.

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