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RE: Debating the best way to draft a Model T

GIS methodology for conveyances? I never suggested or hinted at such. I only mentioned collection of data and data storage.

13 years ago
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RE: Debating the best way to draft a Model T

I guess I'm dense. I don't know what any of your response has to do with the idea I've suggested. GIS methodology will increasingly become the way sur...

13 years ago
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RE: Rod Caps

a lot of truth to that, Bill.

13 years ago
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RE: Debating the best way to draft a Model T

I don't know about deliverables, but I do think collection and database storage will be more GIS like. Just as you alluded to: images, scans, video, a...

13 years ago
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RE: Low Distortion Projections and the law

Kris... Kris:You don't know the power of the projection. Join us... (in my best Darth Vader voice)besides, we have cookies.

13 years ago
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RE: Low Distortion Projections and the law

NAD 83 and WGS 84There's more to it than that, though.WGS84 vs NAD83 as a realization equates to about a meter horizontal difference. You can see the ...

13 years ago
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RE: Low Distortion Projections and the law

Good point, Norman. I've been thinking about that approach. I have all of the vectors on paper (including the covariance matrices). The company that d...

13 years ago
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RE: The Survey Map Drafting Discussion TTT

> BTW: one of my pet peeves is the use of abbreviations without a legend explaining what it really means in plain English. Especially in monument d...

13 years ago
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RE: Low Distortion Projections and the law

We have an offset we've determined locally from CORS96 and NAD83_2011 to our local HARN. It's about a tenth of a foot horizontally. Enough to notice w...

13 years ago
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RE: Low Distortion Projections and the law

We're not under any legal requirement to put State Plane coordinates on our plats in Texas (except for local jurisdiction regarding new subdivisions)....

13 years ago
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RE: NGS Point Sphere

that's really cool.

13 years ago
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RE: Is it jusr me, or is Kent ....

I don't agree with posting this on a professional forum. Entirely inappropriate.

13 years ago
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RE: Example of Map of Survey

Bleh.More to recon than coordinates. More to a plat too. You know that. What am I looking for? What references are there? How do the points connect?

13 years ago
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RE: Example of Map of Survey

I'm talking about making a small (letter size) copy of a part of the c or d size plat to fax or carry in the field for reconnaissance. Such a copy of ...

13 years ago
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RE: Example of Map of Survey

It does look clean. I'm not crazy about tables because you can't make a copy of a small area and expect there to be enough information. But I can see...

13 years ago
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RE: December 6, 2002

Congrats on 11 my friend. you made me look. I go mine May 16 of 2003. a decade goes by pretty quick.

13 years ago
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