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RE: US Survey Foot - State Plane Coordinates

Melita, Absolutely that is where the difference is magnified enough to make a significant difference. I was trying to address the comments from ashto...

2 years ago
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RE: US Survey Foot - State Plane Coordinates

The difference between the US SF and International foot is about 0.01' in a mile. Immaterial for most boundary surveys in urban areas. This change has...

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RE: Add a name to this list

What about NorthernSurveyor? I think he is a recently retired BLM official who shared he had gotten a dire health diagnosis several months ago. From A...

2 years ago
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RE: Non-College Football Fans look away

A friend and colleague was a professor at a prominent Big 10 university at one time. He taught a basic geology class that he refers to as "Rocks for J...

2 years ago
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RE: Add a name to this list

I think "Just a Surveyor" got the boot, or agreed to leave.

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RE: Ring, Ring---Your guys surveyed the wrong place

When I first started in this business, the company I worked for did a lot of percolation tests, most of them in mountain subdivisions that were typica...

2 years ago
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RE: Ring, Ring---Your guys surveyed the wrong place

In the early 80's one of the biggest developers in the area (Sacramento) was a client of the firm I worked for. He came in and said he needed an ALTA ...

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RE: Survey Career Progression Model

This is what my agency uses for the surveyor series. Entry level requires a 4 year degree or an LSIT/EIT. Range D of the Transportation Surveyor cl...

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RE: If you could do it all againƒ??

Been doing it for 45 years, since before I graduated HS in May, 1977. Started as a draftsman, which was a handy skill that found me part time work whe...

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RE: 'Right of Entry' and Difficult Attorney

Certainly game to be. With multiple choice computer based testing, little details like this are fair game, but code and law citations have always been...

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RE: 'Right of Entry' and Difficult Attorney

602.8 Penal Code 846.5 Civil Code

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RE: Add a name to this list

Keith Williams BLM guy. I too miss Kent's participation.... I think. Someone already mentioned foggyidea (Don Poole). I enjoyed his take on surveyin...

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RE: High Point each state in US

The lowest point in California, and the US, Badwater Basin in Death Valley, is only 85 miles from Mount Whitney and in the same county of Inyo. It is ...

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RE: High Point each state in US

The one in charge. I wasn't born until 31 years later if the date cited is correct.

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RE: High Point each state in US

Some photos of that effort here: That particular one is dated June 1928. Another:

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RE: California Exam Calculator Policy

Why not contact Dallas Sweeney at BPELSG to ask? Not sure why a graphing calculator would be needed for the exam, however. It has been 35 years since ...

2 years ago
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RE: I thought i was going to be lucky and not get covid.

Not jabbed and not boosted. Won't be. I would rather take my chances than be injected, especially considering the data that is coming out on injected ...

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