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Williwaw
Williwaw
@williwaw
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Joined: December 12, 2012 5:31 pm
Last seen: June 4, 2026 10:08 am
Topics: 278 / Replies: 3336
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RE: CAD cogo point and symbol displays

Cool. New one on me. I will play around with that. Thanks.

2 years ago
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RE: CAD cogo point and symbol displays

Affirmative on the use of Annotative Points but I am using the standard Carlson symbols and I'm a little unclear if there is anything I need to do to ...

2 years ago
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RE: CAD cogo point and symbol displays

It’s tedious for sure but not overly complicating getting coordinates out as a text file and opening and sorting, stripping out extraneous points in e...

2 years ago
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RE: Appeasing a whackadoo

I wish it were that straightforward. Developer and surveyor that set these pins are pushing up daisies. Subdivision was done in 1955, lake front. Plat...

2 years ago
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RE: Appeasing a whackadoo

Never fails, I always end up getting whacked when I try, because, that's what they doo. Like wrestling a pig, both of us end up smelling like poo but...

2 years ago
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RE: Appeasing a whackadoo

Law reads the same way here. The original corners are in the same location give or take a tenth from where they were tied prior to any work being done...

2 years ago
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RE: Help an LSIT understand

I will typically use a dashed line type clearly labeled as 'unsurveyed boundary line of record' for any depiction of a boundary line that I haven't re...

2 years ago
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RE: First Aid Kit in an Altoids tin

Haven't had a wound yet I couldn't doctor up with survey flagging.

2 years ago
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RE: Quick Boundary related question. A first for me seeing this.

Lot of times culverts will have stationing on them, be shown on plans with stationing or both. If you were able to lay your hands on the highway plans...

2 years ago
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RE: A surveying decision..

Personally I would have held the RR tie, whether it was a chain off or not, it was the only physical evidence that somebody had taken the time and eff...

3 years ago
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RE: Following a GPS survey

From a practical stand point for me it comes down to awareness that change is a constant and no measurement is absolute, just a snapshot in time. I'm ...

3 years ago
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RE: Following a GPS survey

Must be nice. One of the issues I'm running into with GPS derived survey work I did a decade ago is the areas I work in is somewhat in a state of geol...

3 years ago
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RE: Boots Again

My Danners I had to retire after only two seasons. They just started coming apart and the water proofing failed after the first season. I've since gon...

3 years ago
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RE: What obligation does another surveyor have to return your call.

I'm not sure a title report would have helped much. The (complete and total) lack of monumentation within the bounds of condo plat was between the mun...

3 years ago
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RE: What obligation does another surveyor have to return your call.

Crickets. All I wanted was to confirm that none of the boundaries inside the subdivision had been changed and I was okay relying on the original plat ...

3 years ago
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RE: What obligation does another surveyor have to return your call.

"This sounds like stuff you should have noticed as part of researching the job…" That's brilliant. Why didn't I think of that. My final thoughts on t...

3 years ago
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