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Williwaw
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RE: Beginner "Land Surveying and Mapping Technology"

If you want to take the quickest and easiest route to getting licensed as a surveyor in Texas, your best bet is to enroll in a university that offers ...

10 months ago
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RE: Back for a minute

Good to see you post HC. Hoping you're getting stronger and better every day.

10 months ago
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RE: Traversing after free station

I believe it comes down to having a closed traverse whereby each leg of the traverse is dependent upon the other legs with the intention of closing ba...

10 months ago
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RE: Railroad "Val Maps", what map projection are they drawn to?

I'm at around 62 degrees latitude north. When it comes to placing things on the ground is where we come in. When engineers put too much faith in those...

10 months ago
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RE: Railroad "Val Maps", what map projection are they drawn to?

Two words. Rubber sheet. This pretty much illustrates why GIS stands for Get It Surveyed. If you have some real world WGS coordinates along the length...

10 months ago
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RE: Lot Split Application Requirements

You don't. Around here it's the utility companies that sign off on that. Their opportunity to weigh in if the proposed adjustment will impact them.

10 months ago
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RE: What Do You Call Paint Marks?

You know the locate paint marks are a bit sketchy when you run into the locator in the field putting them down using divining rods.

10 months ago
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RE: Only seeing GPS & GLONASS on a R10-1 Rover with R8-4 Base - Survey Pro 6.8

If I'm not mistaken we had to go through the dealer in order to get those constellations working in our receivers. Pay to play.

10 months ago
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RE: For all you Superlatitudinals

Sounds pleasant enough from where I'm sitting. Had a guy from Texas come to work here some years back in April and it snowed a foot his first day, nex...

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RE: 4 year degree requirement

Where I feel very fortunate is that I was able to get licensed based on my AAS degree and work experience because having gone back to school in my 30s...

10 months ago
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RE: Go Boldly to the ASPLS 2024 Conference

I'll be there if anyone needs that little extra incentive to visit Anchorage in February. ⛄

10 months ago
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RE: Confirmation what is this

Given that the bottom shows signs of having been broken off of something at one time, I'm going to say that if it is part of an old boundary monument,...

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RE: CAD cogo point and symbol displays

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

10 months 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 ...

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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...

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