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peter-lothian
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Joined: December 2, 2011 11:32 am
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RE: How to become a surveyor in the USA from other countries

As jimcox said, each state has its rules. All states will require you to pass the Fundamentals of Land Surveying Exam, and the Principals and Practice...

2 years ago
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RE: Carlson Survey Cad

Only way I know would be to put the rw5 file name in the point group description. When I import points from an rw5 I use the name of the rw5 file for ...

2 years ago
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RE: Location of Davy Jones's Locker?

Are you sure you should be using USft? Could be the scale difference from INTft.

2 years ago
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RE: Calamity Jane

Perhaps you could email Jane a copy of 250 C.M.R. with section 5.02(h) highlighted: (h) A Registrant shall provide written notification to other Regis...

2 years ago
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RE: They always come in threes.

I seem to remember doing a survey like that once a long time ago.

2 years ago
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RE: City of Los Angeles 1972 survey department photo

Did Burt Reynolds work there between movie gigs? (2nd row, 5th from the left)

2 years ago
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RE: Control Bust

Have you checked the calibration of your EDM on an established calibration baseline?

2 years ago
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RE: US survey foot in xkcd

I'm gonna have to post that to my LinkedIn account.

2 years ago
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RE: 4 year degree requirement

I wish that I could see all that you wrote while replying one by one on your points. I do this by copying and pasting the post to a text editor. Then ...

2 years ago
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RE: Florida swamp photos

"...no such thing as FLA swamp land." Sounds like the flat-earther mind-set. Maybe show him some maps with all the Florida big-ass swamps labelled?

2 years ago
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RE: 4 year degree requirement

According to the microeconomics class I took in college, a shortage of licensed surveyors should result in higher fees (and pay) for those "widgets". ...

2 years ago
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RE: 4 year degree requirement

As a fellow with a 4 year degree in Surveying Engineering, and only a fraction of your accomplishments, you strike me as supremely professional.

2 years ago
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RE: 4000ssi and radio going cheap

It may be functional, but is it useable? If I'm not mistaken, that is a very old unit. If I remember correctly, people can no longer use the Trimble s...

2 years ago
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RE: CAD cogo point and symbol displays

For what it's worth, I've been using AutoCAD, then IntelliCAD for a while, now back on AutoCAD since before Y2K. I've only looked briefly at Annotativ...

2 years ago
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RE: CAD cogo point and symbol displays

"I’ll think I have it figured out, save and close out the drawing, open it up again and cogo points and symbols have reverted back to some unaccepta...

2 years ago
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RE: Questions for Flat Earth Discussions

"Almost all the measures in that document have more than 60 arc seconds." I only looked at the page you quoted, and only one measure showed greater th...

2 years ago
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RE: Questions for Flat Earth Discussions

Q: Why are the flat-earthers analyzing minutia of document that has been superceded a number of times in the past 123 years by superior measurement te...

2 years ago
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