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RE: 35 years ago today

Mine was in 1979 - a rainy day in, of all places, an elementary school cafeteria in the Sunset in San Francisco. The sound of rustling pages by the e...

8 years ago
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RE: Handling inaccuracy and the positions of existing monuments

Yes, I suspect that Singapore's current status was the result of the friendly equivalent of our Declaration of Independence - essentially creating a r...

8 years ago
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RE: Handling inaccuracy and the positions of existing monuments

We have a contemporary author of a book entitled "The Pincushion Effect" - Jeffery Lucas, in which he declaims the difference between a true retraceme...

8 years ago
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RE: Lunch today... Mrs. File's Mighty Fine Beef Stroganoff

Yeah, it's a bit like, how do you know when sour cream goes bad?

8 years ago
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RE: 55 years ago today

International Travelall.

8 years ago
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RE: Handling inaccuracy and the positions of existing monuments

Francis,I'm curious about your assessment of the English method of cadastral surveying, given the centuries of surveying, and laying out of plats and ...

8 years ago
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RE: Handling inaccuracy and the positions of existing monuments

FrancisH, post: 397398, member: 10211 wrote: if lots have been continuously subdivided or consolidated, then there must be a time in the past where we...

8 years ago
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RE: Handling inaccuracy and the positions of existing monuments

FrancisH, post: 397395, member: 10211 wrote: well if you find the judicial path too complicated to pursue, you can go at it through the legislative ro...

8 years ago
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RE: Handling inaccuracy and the positions of existing monuments

Keep in mind that trial court decisions are appealable to the Appellate court in a District. The Appellate review is of points of law, not of evidenti...

8 years ago
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RE: Handling inaccuracy and the positions of existing monuments

Francis,I don't recall you bringing up the concept of junior/senior rights. It's one thing to deal with simultaneous conveyances, but even they share ...

8 years ago
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RE: Handling inaccuracy and the positions of existing monuments

All right, why are you so fixated on American surveyors not being able to discern between obvious blunders and attributable mismeasurement?Posters hav...

8 years ago
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RE: Pipeline Going Through Indian Burial Grounds

Yeah, we are facing a somewhat similar situation here in the San Francisco Bay Delta, where water from the junction of the Sacramento and San Joaquin ...

8 years ago
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RE: Handling inaccuracy and the positions of existing monuments

FrancisH, post: 397366, member: 10211 wrote: This is a discussion warren, no one has to win or lose. You present your arguments and so shall I.I have ...

8 years ago
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RE: Pipeline Going Through Indian Burial Grounds

Ah, the international motive. Trumps federal interest alone. Pardon the pun.

8 years ago
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RE: Pipeline Going Through Indian Burial Grounds

It does seem to be metamorphisizing into transportation of goods for public benefit.

8 years ago
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RE: Handling inaccuracy and the positions of existing monuments

Francis,I'll ask this of you again.Why are you so argumentative and contrarian? What is your end game in all of this?It is instructive - especially th...

8 years ago
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RE: Pipeline Going Through Indian Burial Grounds

The railroads started this concept 150 years ago.

8 years ago
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RE: Handling inaccuracy and the positions of existing monuments

The system is not flawed. There are statutory remedies for all the ills you describe, and they are utilized constantly. A prudent surveyor is aware of...

8 years ago
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RE: Handling inaccuracy and the positions of existing monuments

Francis,Cooley ' s opinion in that case relates a guiding principle that is highly relevant today, and will continue to do so in future applicable cir...

8 years ago
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RE: Handling inaccuracy and the positions of existing monuments

Francis,I'm curious about your use of ad hominem attacks. What on earth vested interest do you have in our collective methods of retracement surveying...

8 years ago
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