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	<title>Land Surveyors Notebook &#187; ALTA</title>
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		<copyright>&#xA9; LarryVan</copyright>
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		<title>ALTA / ACSM Long-form Certifications</title>
		<link>http://surveyorsnotebook.com/2007/06/02/alta-acsm-long-form-certifications/</link>
		<comments>http://surveyorsnotebook.com/2007/06/02/alta-acsm-long-form-certifications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2007 21:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LarryVan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Land Surveyor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Land Title Survey]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading posts on the POB-rpls message board today when I came upon this excellent post by Peter Lazio, a land surveyor from New York.&#160; Peter gave his permission for readers to copy, and I have re-posted it here so that it can be easily found. (...)]]></description>
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		<title>2007 Surveyors CEU Cruise &#8211; Day 2</title>
		<link>http://surveyorsnotebook.com/2007/03/27/2007-surveyors-ceu-cruise-day-2/</link>
		<comments>http://surveyorsnotebook.com/2007/03/27/2007-surveyors-ceu-cruise-day-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LarryVan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ALTA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Continuing Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elevation Certificate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FEMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Land Surveyor CEU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Least Squares]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RPA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relative Positional Accuracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Surveyors Cruise]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cruise Day 2  (Sunday February 25, 2007)




Classes began at 8:00 AM in three locations on the ship.  I had selected &#8220;FEMA for Land Surveyors&#8221; for my first class. (...)]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Title Work on the ALTA Survey</title>
		<link>http://surveyorsnotebook.com/2006/10/31/title-work-on-the-alta-survey/</link>
		<comments>http://surveyorsnotebook.com/2006/10/31/title-work-on-the-alta-survey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LarryVan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ACSM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALTA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Easements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Extinguishment by Merger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Land Title Survey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Surveyors Notebook]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have arrived in Indiana, visited the site and began looking for evidence.  I also asked for a copy o the title policy. (...)]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Another ALTA Survey</title>
		<link>http://surveyorsnotebook.com/2006/10/07/another-alta-survey/</link>
		<comments>http://surveyorsnotebook.com/2006/10/07/another-alta-survey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2006 21:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LarryVan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ACSM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALTA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Easements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Extinguishment by Merger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Land Title Survey]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will be going back north to Indiana to undertake an Alta survey on the North half of a 12 unit apartment complex. (...)]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Last Squares Adjusment &#8211; Revisited</title>
		<link>http://surveyorsnotebook.com/2006/08/28/last-squares-adjusment-revisited/</link>
		<comments>http://surveyorsnotebook.com/2006/08/28/last-squares-adjusment-revisited/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 03:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LarryVan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ALTA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Land Title Survey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Least Squares]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RPA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relative Positional Accuracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Standards/Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Surveyors Notebook]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I received an email today stating that they had run across my post on least squares adjustment while looking for a practical example and found none. (Not even at my site). (...)]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Relative Positional Accuracy &#8211; A Discussion</title>
		<link>http://surveyorsnotebook.com/2006/08/09/relative-positional-accuracy-a-discussion/</link>
		<comments>http://surveyorsnotebook.com/2006/08/09/relative-positional-accuracy-a-discussion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2006 04:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LarryVan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ACSM]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Continuing Education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Land Title Survey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Least Squares]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Relative Positional Accuracy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I wrote about Relative Positional Accuracy (RPA) discussions at the Transit Seminars &#8220;Procrastinators Special&#8221;, where a rather bizarre methodology was presented. (...)]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Return from CEU Hell</title>
		<link>http://surveyorsnotebook.com/2006/07/26/return-from-ceu-hell/</link>
		<comments>http://surveyorsnotebook.com/2006/07/26/return-from-ceu-hell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jul 2006 05:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LarryVan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ALTA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Continuing Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Land Surveyor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Land Surveyor CEU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RPA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relative Positional Accuracy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://surveyorsnotebook.com/2006/07/26/return-from-ceu-hell/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just got back from a round trip to Indianapolis to get the 24 CEU&#8217;s required for renewal of my Indiana license. (...)]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Easement Extinguishment by Merger and Lender Comments</title>
		<link>http://surveyorsnotebook.com/2006/03/31/easement-extinguishment-by-merger-and-lender-comments/</link>
		<comments>http://surveyorsnotebook.com/2006/03/31/easement-extinguishment-by-merger-and-lender-comments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 2006 04:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LarryVan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ACSM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALTA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Easements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Extinguishment by Merger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Land Surveyor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Surveyors Notebook]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The ALTA Survey I completed last week is owned by a company who purchased it in 1986 from a group of partnerships formed to individually own and finance different sections as they were constructed. (...)]]></description>
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		<title>Three ALTA Surveys on One Project</title>
		<link>http://surveyorsnotebook.com/2006/03/26/three-alta-surveys-on-one-project/</link>
		<comments>http://surveyorsnotebook.com/2006/03/26/three-alta-surveys-on-one-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2006 04:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LarryVan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ACSM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALTA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Easements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Land Surveyor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Land Title Survey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the past 4 weeks, I&#8217;ve been involved with updating an ALTA survey of an apartment complex in Northern Indiana. It is a project that I have been involved with for the past 30 years. (...)]]></description>
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		<title>ALTA Survey, Record &amp; Measured Distances, and Plat Notation</title>
		<link>http://surveyorsnotebook.com/2006/03/01/alta-survey-record-measured-distances-and-plat-notation/</link>
		<comments>http://surveyorsnotebook.com/2006/03/01/alta-survey-record-measured-distances-and-plat-notation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2006 04:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LarryVan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ACSM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALTA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Discussion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Surveyors Notebook]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the conflicts I have the most problem reconciling is that contained within Article 5 (b)
When record bearings or angles or distances differ from measured bearings, angles or distances, both the record and measured bearings, angles, and distances shall be clearly indicated&#8230;. (...)]]></description>
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