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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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
@RPLS I seem to remember from "Legal Evidence & Boundary Procedures" (my personal copy was the 2nd release, before Robillard got involved) that h...
"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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
As enticing as that invite sounds, I've done enough time in Anchorage in February. I may go to the Western States conference in March where one of the...
WAG, but could it be meant to measure degree of curve directly in either arc or chord definition?
I may have told this story here before. Was doing level runs establishing elevations on stream crossings for some flood control project. One day we we...