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RE: TEXAS FIELD NOTES AND TITLE COMPANYS

In Texas, many of the out of State lenders and title companies piss and moan over "new descriptions" out of ignorance. Like Andy said, we're different...

13 years ago
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RE: TEXAS FIELD NOTES AND TITLE COMPANYS

The intent should be clearly explained in the field note description. For example "All that certain 4.95 acre tract of land, being that same tract of ...

13 years ago
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RE: TEXAS FIELD NOTES AND TITLE COMPANYS

yes;-) don't know why, it's just the tradition. we all shy away from calling it a "legal description". I guess one of the Ted Madson seminar types ble...

13 years ago
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RE: TEXAS FIELD NOTES AND TITLE COMPANYS

We provide text of the description pretty often in a word document with no letterhead. We prefer it to the transcription errors that once accompanied ...

13 years ago
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RE: Spectra Precision User Hostile Marketing Policies and Softwa

DOHa poorly executed shameless plug at that.

13 years ago
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RE: Carlson SurvCE - Offset Sideshots

Negative Ghost Rider. With Prompt for Point Description/Rod Height checked...Select Offset->Dist/Ang tab->Read Distance (or press enter, which d...

13 years ago
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RE: Spectra Precision User Hostile Marketing Policies and Softwa

I did a review of the Carlson SurvPC 3.x which is functionally the same as SurvCE 3.0 and did use the GPS Search utility. I mention it in the article:...

13 years ago
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RE: Float Solution

How long is the base line, Aryo?

13 years ago
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RE: Geodetic/adjustment software

Columbus is my answer to both questions.It is incredibly robust software. Adjustments are geodetic, instead of being projected to a plane and adjusted...

13 years ago
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RE: Carlson Intellicad vs Carlson AutoCad embedded

I wouldn't say this is true for all by any means, but for some, their opinions of IntelliCAD may be based on experiences for several years ago. It's c...

13 years ago
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RE: Art Osborn

I met him a few times, he always seemed to be a genuinely nice guy. For all of his history in the TBPLS and TSA/TSPS, he never struck me as arrogant o...

13 years ago
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RE: Carlson Intellicad vs Carlson AutoCad embedded

I upgraded from SurvCADD XML with ACAD 2002i to Survey 2013 with IntelliCAD, so that should tell you how far "behind" we were. It was enough of an upg...

13 years ago
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RE: Retireing

I don't know you, so what I'm about to say isn't an opinion of you one way or the other, but in my very humble, youthful(?) opinion, a surveyor's busi...

13 years ago
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RE: Texas Surveyors: How can this fly!

I've seen several pipeline easement plats produced over the last several years that have line tables to the second and hundredth from Well No. x to We...

13 years ago
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