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RE: Calculated Section Corners

Some are long some are short, once in awhile it should just hit right on.About ten years ago was doing a survey in the Utah mountains following a very...

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RE: Future of Employment in Land Surveying

I personally wouldn't put all that much hope in the employment for anything. Maybe you might look at how your employment could aid in the unemploymen...

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RE: Department of the Interior: US Fish and Wildlife

I agree with Carl. Worked for the feds for 5 years. Most jobs are locked into the system. If you ain't part of it no dice. They advertise per the ...

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RE: low distortion projection

Most software/data collectors will output the ground distance and the grid distance. So with a LDP going on its easy to compare the LDP grid distance...

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RE: Two recent water boundary cases in Ontario

Interesting cases. I don't deal with waterfront very often (live in a desert). There are two opposite determinations but the facts are a bit differe...

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RE: Ran into this guy today

Looks like he got caught trying to jump the fence!

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RE: Can A TSC1 Run A Geodimeter/Trimble Robot?

I messed with that setup but never followed all the way through. Had trouble getting it to run in robotic (radio settings I think) but I think it wil...

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RE: Positional Accuracy Checking

2cm +/- OPUS ? Reply to LR DayI use OPUS to establish my surveys on world wide control.I use OPUS to document PLSS corner records as that is an accept...

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RE: Likelihood of Incompetence +/-0.10 ft.

I think it's generally known that using RTK or GPS is not real tight at short distances. It might be bad practice.What about the opposite, long dista...

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RE: Positional Accuracy Checking

I've never had them come and check my positional accuracy, doesn't mean someday they won't.Kent, have they ever checked your positional accuracy? If ...

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RE: Positional Accuracy Checking

In Texas, I'd say it matters quite a lot. I'm unsure about other states.So does Texas have and agency that checks positional accuracy of surveyors? D...

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RE: Positional Accuracy Checking

I understand what your point is Kent. It just to me and most of the clients I work for a couple of tenths usually doesn't make any difference. There...

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RE: Positional Accuracy Checking

If there are monuments, and the monuments are held and respected and sub-meter allows one to locate the monuments, I'd say sub-meter works just fine.I...

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RE: Positional Accuracy Checking

I've known from experience for a long time that there is some slop in RTK measurements and there is some in static also. The CORS station coordinates...

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RE: RTK Errors and ALTA Accuracy Standards

Surveying Errors and ALTA... Idea!I'd rather see a less precise measurement to the right place than 10 on a nats butt to the wrong place. With all th...

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