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I just looked. I'm running v3.71. Version 3.8 is available. You might see if the issues you're seeing are corrected in the newer version. I'm hoping m...
Slant Height vs Vertical Height:good:
Typically I don't fret too much about statistics for kinematic work. I'm more interested in fixed vs. float. If it's fixed I expect something in the n...
Attitude ???:good:
looks like they're dropping the precision requirements. I'm okay with that. Not really enforceable. Looks like they're taking another crack at the bea...
There's a right way to make that phone call and a bunch of wrong ways. There is also a right way to take that call. If you can consider the concerns r...
Sorry to hear that, JD. Alzheimer's sucks. I know that 5 years was hard. May he rest in peace.
haha. I like it.One more thing on those "long form certificates" - I believe they're created like a bad chain email. Over the years, as it is passed a...
We don't do longforms. Ever. This is why dad never did altas in the 90s. We do them now because we can hold to the cert proscribed. When they try to c...
We've all been in those kind of situations before I suppose. It sucks when it's the kind of projects you'd really really like because they sound fun o...
The reason for my question:good:
right on. I'd still be open to owning one, just not if I was married to a DC with a cable only connection (which I'm not). Thanks for the heads up on ...
wow. I haven't seen one in person yet. looks kind of cool, but the cable in the top would be a deal breaker for cabled use. Bluetooth would be fine th...
We publish State Plane Coordinates on our surveys and so our metadata is particular to our purposes. Lately I've been using custom projections. My lat...
Erasures in field books make field books inadmissible in court. That one's been around forever.Just last year a seminar presenter said that Texas surv...
We run into those kinds of situations quite a bit at a nearby lake with about 1500 lots surrounding it. There is quite the mix of simple cabins on mos...
I agree with Jerry, Jim. That's nice.
I agree with you in what you said, MightyMoe, except that I personally don't care much for the term "True North". I use the term Geodetic North - some...