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Williwaw
Williwaw
@williwaw
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Joined: December 12, 2012 5:31 pm
Last seen: June 3, 2026 4:45 pm
Topics: 278 / Replies: 3336
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RE: WEBSITE FOR KINEMATIC SURVEY POST-PROCESS (STOP AND GO)

You can download a program for free called 'Emlid Studio' that will work. Assumption being you have some good base or CORS data to work with.

1 year ago
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RE: Help with finding a corner pin.

With the given radius and arc length, the delta is 5 degrees 46 minutes and the chord length is 88.03'. You can take half of the arc's delta and add o...

1 year ago
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RE: Tie Pin Wanted

There's clearly a future in surveyor fashion influencers. Just not sure where.

1 year ago
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RE: Building Concrete Pillar Monuments - Any tips?

Just a suggestion if you're in a place that gets any significant frost. Wrap the concrete below grade with several layers of plastic visqueen down bel...

1 year ago
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RE: Freakin' Wind~

Hate it when that happens. Years ago had a Trimble 5700 with a geodetic antenna set up in a wide open glacial river area with a repeater. When we ...

1 year ago
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RE: Mini Tripods

@norman-oklahoma Traversing in the woods back in the day we rarely used a tripod and prism for a backsight because it meant you'd have to go back and ...

1 year ago
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RE: American made drones?

@norman-oklahoma You know what's a bit ironic? It's a government agency unwilling to pony up enough for a US made drone that has me in this spot, and ...

1 year ago
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RE: American made drones?

@norman-oklahoma I'm confused. A pretext for what exactly. There's no evidence DJI uses slave labor. Does the Chinese government? Yes. Does the Chines...

1 year ago
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RE: American made drones?

@bstrand To be fair they should ban iPhones since they're also made in China. Samsung is a Korean company but manufactures in Vietnam and India. They ...

1 year ago
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RE: American made drones?

@norman-oklahoma What about your cell phone? I don't see anybody chucking those.

1 year ago
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RE: American made drones?

@pschaeffer Interesting. Thanks for the tip. The agency I work for set aside barely enough to cover a DJI Mavic 3E, and like you said, customs is hold...

1 year ago
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RE: Thinking of starting my own business. What advice do those of you have?

For anyone that would consider forgoing health insurance while starting a small business, I would really hesitate to do that. My ten days in the hospi...

1 year ago
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RE: Need a new survey database to geo-locate and track past work

Thanks. At this point being new to this position and flying solo I'm doing triage while drinking from a firehose so something very simple that just gi...

1 year ago
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RE: Cost Estimation for UAV Aerial Imagery Decoding

About $200 an hour as a bill out rate, so for $750 you could afford about four hours of my time. Any other questions?

1 year ago
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RE: Need a new survey database to geo-locate and track past work

@olemanriver I have a total staff of three. Me, myself, and I and keeping the three rowing in the same direction is an ever present challenge. Let me ...

1 year ago
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RE: Need a new survey database to geo-locate and track past work

@gary_g I believe that's doable. Just a question of how best to set it up and get it in. For right now I'm just going in and adding place marks to tel...

1 year ago
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RE: Compass Rule on an "open" traverse

Aka the Bowditch adjustment, where you are beginning your traverse off of a known coordinate and closing into another known coordinate. Quite common t...

1 year ago
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RE: Expansion thoughts

Can't speak to which of those states you mentioned would be most profitable but if you were to have to pick one, which would it be and why?

1 year ago
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