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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: How much has a recession effect survey demand?

@norman-oklahoma That David Wooleyƒ??s take was spot on. Should be required viewing for up and comers. Itƒ??s really survival of the fittest and most ...

4 years ago
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RE: Your ideal course requirements for a surveying degree?

@rover83 Consider that 54% of Americans read below a 6th. grade level.?ÿ?ÿ

4 years ago
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RE: Your ideal course requirements for a surveying degree?

Couple things spring to mind. The boundary law classes were very critical to me in realizing that the profession wasn't all just about measurements. T...

4 years ago
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RE: Alaska Surveying / LS requirements

Begin with a visit here: Layout likely would fall under construction surveying which would not have a license requirement, but also would not count t...

4 years ago
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RE: Surveyor disagreement

It never fails to amaze me how many surveyors will proclaim a monument 'wrong' when it doesn't fit their math perfectly and will then set their own mo...

4 years ago
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RE: Post-natural disaster surveying

This article really caught my attention given the pervasive drought in the west. Pendulum always swings both ways. I'm sure a good many California sur...

4 years ago
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RE: Ridiculous questions that make me question the ....

@murphy Try commercial fishing in the Bering Sea in winter. Everything after that is Disney Land. Taught me the true value of an education.

4 years ago
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RE: Ridiculous questions that make me question the ....

@dave-lindell A subtle but terribly important distinction. I think people can easily view the questions only through their own lens while oblivious to...

4 years ago
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RE: Ridiculous questions that make me question the ....

@jitterboogie Nobody is attacking your competency. I have a guy who is very competent, in the mechanics of surveying, does very good work. Has failed ...

4 years ago
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RE: Ridiculous questions that make me question the ....

@jitterboogie I'm not sure that you're in a position to define what minimum competency should entail.

4 years ago
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RE: Ridiculous questions that make me question the ....

File under survey trivia and move on. You never know when knowledge of some obscure seemingly irrelevant tidbit is what makes the difference between a...

4 years ago
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RE: Post-natural disaster surveying

@dougie One foot in the future, one in the past. I guess that what keeps it interesting.

4 years ago
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RE: Post-natural disaster surveying

@dougie I get it. Our State DOT has performed and recorded numerous Record of Surveys on many of their more important ROW corridors, complete with pub...

4 years ago
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RE: Post-natural disaster surveying

It's occurred to me in the past that, in non-recording states in particular, re-establishing property corners following a large scale, widespread disa...

4 years ago
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