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RE: GNSS Solutions Processing of Kinematic Data

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...

14 years ago
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RE: GNSS Solutions Processing of Kinematic Data

Slant Height vs Vertical Height:good:

14 years ago
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RE: GNSS Solutions Processing of Kinematic Data

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...

14 years ago
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RE: TBPLS Rule Revisions

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...

14 years ago
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RE: Another surveyor called me today & called me out

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...

14 years ago
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RE: Lost my Dad

Sorry to hear that, JD. Alzheimer's sucks. I know that 5 years was hard. May he rest in peace.

14 years ago
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RE: ALTA Certificate & Balky Clients

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...

14 years ago
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RE: ALTA Certificate & Balky Clients

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...

14 years ago
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RE: 5400 Acres of Rugged

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...

14 years ago
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RE: GPS gurus being sought

The reason for my question:good:

14 years ago
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RE: New Topcon Total Station

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 ...

14 years ago
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RE: New Topcon Total Station

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...

14 years ago
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RE: Establishing North using GPS

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...

14 years ago
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RE: Survey Myths being advanced…

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...

14 years ago
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RE: The Corner in the Landscape Bed

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...

14 years ago
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RE: The Corner in the Landscape Bed

I agree with Jerry, Jim. That's nice.

14 years ago
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RE: Why bother with Assumed Bearing Basis?

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...

14 years ago
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