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richard-germiller
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Joined: August 14, 2010 11:17 pm
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Topics: 62 / Replies: 693
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RE: Looking for Old School CAD Help

@squirl 'bd gives the bearing and distance option. I still use the old fashioned @dist<bearing

1 month ago
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RE: Anyone getting snow ?

WHAT, no comment from Williwaw? This thread is making me miss Juneau (not really)

2 months ago
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RE: Time Zone Fun

Not a pair, but a good sized one outside the Sundial Rec Center in Sun City, the base is about 60' in diameter. We don't need to figure adjustments ev...

6 months ago
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RE: Am I the only one who thinks this is wrong?

I really don't care if the direction matches deed directions, I think most of us try to, but what really bugs me is when they are not continuous

6 months ago
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RE: Site plan service?

Probably OK for conceptual, but if anything is even close to setback I hope the reviewers would question it. On that note the comments I get from plan...

7 months ago
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RE: Still Kicking

Good to hear from you Mike. Thank s for the update on your wonderful retirement. All the best to you.

8 months ago
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RE: Triple check your final work projects

The place I worked in OR it became standard practice for the Office Manager to give a final review of anything before it went out the door, she would ...

8 months ago
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RE: Spiral Curves Blah

Since a spiral can’t be offset I’m curious how others would define the R/W, on US Surveys BLM would define with equally divided short chords. I’d cons...

8 months ago
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RE: Spiral Curves Blah

Dealt with spirals so much in AK. I would give the length of the spirals, sometimes not equal, the overall spiral tangent, the "a" value (rate of chan...

8 months ago
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RE: Who makes these rules?

In the HOA bylaws of a community that I used to live in had a rule that fences had to be 1/2' from the property line. there were 1' gaps between fence...

9 months ago
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RE: Mark Recovery in Germany

Similar to Mr. Squirls remembrance, when I bought my first house in NY in a private community that I had worked on when it was just going to be townho...

11 months ago
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RE: Construction of a boundary

@RPLS I seem to remember from "Legal Evidence & Boundary Procedures" (my personal copy was the 2nd release, before Robillard got involved) that h...

1 year ago
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RE: Scale Bars on plats

"I have bar-scale .dwg blocks for every engineering scale you can imagine. Takes about 10 seconds to insert to the drawing. Looks professional." We ha...

1 year ago
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RE: Scale Bars on plats

At one of my former employs we would not put the scale bar on the surveys, but always on the Engineering plans. The boss' (PE/LS) philosophy - "only t...

1 year ago
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RE: Surveying Jokes

We obviously have not worked with the same engineers

1 year ago
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RE: Tips to inspire field crew?

What Squirl said! Attitudes like you describe for your LS I think have a lot to do with the lack of people moving up in the profession, if you're not ...

1 year ago
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RE: Visualizing chain of title over time

I had a way of showing that for some of the airports in AK, I used a different layout tab for each transaction, and was careful about my layering and ...

1 year ago
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RE: Carlson & Civil 3D

In AK we had C3D with the Sincpac add on, I didn't use it too often myself a my work was boundary and ROW determination, so I just used the points tha...

1 year ago
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