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Topics: 18 / Replies: 231
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RE: 1936 vs. 1958 Mapping

The 1936 aerial photography does not appear to well controlled; the 1958 mapping is.

11 years ago
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RE: drafting subcontractor

If you send the work overseas, your daughter misses out on the work and money.Consider if your client is overseas and has a reduced survey drafting co...

11 years ago
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RE: Can you plot a large map from Google Maps?

I export the maps to Power Point and then add borders and text labels.I have a 42" WIDE plotter. If you want a print, give me the center coordinatean...

11 years ago
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RE: Mortgage inspections @ $145

If the inspections are not a boundary survey, then why put a surveyor's stamp on the map.Side-ties from the building to the property lines would seem ...

11 years ago
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RE: "thence along said property line"

I remember Wattles giving a legal description seminar. The point of beginning was a section cornerat a corner fence post. He described by metes and ...

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RE: Q for those that own/partner in multi-disciplinary firms

Ask the partners if the survey department would be a profit center. Be cautiousthat the engineers think the surveyors will work for nothing. They ar...

11 years ago
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RE: Need Some Chili Help

Kent's Chili Is RightThose pequin's can get really mean!!!!

11 years ago
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RE: Need Some Chili Help

PICOSOIf you buy jalapeños, habernos, chills, and onions from a street vendor versus theInternet or a grocery store, you can get more 'kick' for the b...

11 years ago
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RE: Need Some Chili Help

The last time I ate there at TCP, the place was overrun by politicians and lawyers.If you didn't think your chili was the hottest (in Tejano, we mean ...

11 years ago
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RE: Art Osborn

There were a few public forums, TSPS meetings, conventions, and seminars, where I saw Art. Several surveyorsresponded to the speaker's question, but A...

11 years ago
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RE: Retireing

I worked for a land surveyor. I left to work for a construction company and then anengineering company. After getting started myself, I would get ca...

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

Many pipelines projects are done with aerial photography and no preliminary surveying.Ties from the pipeline to property corners are scaled and field ...

11 years ago
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RE: Encroachments/ Gaps?

I agree with JB. If you call it an encroachment, and later find or are shown original monumentsincluding the building, you may have to get into the n...

11 years ago
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RE: Beer drone a no-go FAA says!

I have always respected land surveyors because of their innovation. True, you cannot use thedrone for commercial use so use it for personal use. Buy...

11 years ago
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RE: First Firing

Please tell meThe first time I was laid off, "I asked, Why not the other crews??" A rod man said, "Tony always lays off the hippies first."

11 years ago
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RE: This guy is amazing

Should we not pray for high tide?

11 years ago
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RE: Pictures from the field

I always like to throw everything off line so I can walk with the chain saw.Those trees are the exact size that kicked-back my chain saw and cost me15...

11 years ago
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RE: misclosure and intent?

If the parcel is land locked buy the owner selling the farm, I wouldn't survey it.An attorney could prepare a quit-claim to the owner of the farm. Th...

11 years ago
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