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What Land Surveyors are saying
“I have
been using PrimaCode's Transform and its predecessors for almost twenty years
and have found that it gives me the fastest and most accurate way to compute the
most likely location of a missing monument based upon record plans and field
evidence. The more I use it, the more uses I find for it. I depend
on it exclusively for these types of computations.”
MaryAnn
Corcoran, PLS
Hill Engineers, Architects, Planners
Dalton, MA
“Transform is to analysis what the EDM is to
measuring, or what CAD is to drafting. Once you use it, you won’t do
without it.”
Stephen A
Salvini, PLS
PIONEER Land Services
Chester, MA
"... I used the method of my old-time
mentor to hold the coordinate for one monument and use another monument for
line. Not being confident of what two monuments would be the best, I decided to
additionally analyze the distances between all combinations of pairs of
monuments to determine what I thought was the 'best pair' to use. I was not
particularly confident of this solution either because there were usually quite
a number of monuments in good condition that were included in the surveys that
were considered but not used."
"With
Transform, it is so easy to search for probable matching monuments, to include
or exclude monuments from consideration and to achieve a transformation
solution. I particularly like the way the data is displayed. I can see on one
page a large number points under consideration, the current and old monument
descriptions, the direction and distance between them and the statistical data
for any solution."
"I will
typically spend only five to ten minutes using Transform and I feel confident
that I have determined the defendable, best fit of the monumentation available
to me."
Robert
Nunnemacher, PLS
Thompson-Liston Associates, Inc.
Boylston, MA
"Just wanted to take a moment to let you know how
much we appreciate Transform for Windows. The more I use it the
more I want to use it even more! Looking forward to new software
from you, especially a COGO package Thanks for the great program!"
Joseph F. Hammond, L.S.
Buckman &
Whitbeck, PC
82 Main Street
East Berne, NY 12009
"I have been using PrimaCode Technologies “Transform”
program for several years now, and am very satisfied with its capabilities.
Prior to discovering this software I utilized an Excel spreadsheet that a
business partner and I originally developed using Lotus 1-2-3 to compare found
monument locations with their record locations. It was functional, but very
cumbersome to use. I have found that Transform is relatively easy to use and
provides amazing functionality. It is the only software I have found that allows
the surveyor to compare the locations of any number of monuments with their
record positions in an easy to understand format. To my knowledge, it is the
only method of analyzing the locations of complex arrays of found monuments with
true mathematical repeatability. Determining which monuments are consistent with
their platted location can become overwhelming in short order. It simply is not
possible to properly evaluate the positional relationships of more than a few
monuments without some type of mathematical analysis, as the amount of
information to digest grows exponentially. Transform allows the surveyor to
evaluate the positions of any number of monuments and arrive at a mathematically
repeatable determination of the most probable location for missing monuments.
Transform allows the surveyor to use a “trial and error” method to visualize the
ramifications of accepting or rejecting any number of recovered monuments.
Weights can be assigned to each monument to provide a method of relying more
heavily on certain monuments."
"Each scenario produces a scale factor,
translation, and rotation that is mathematically unique for those points
under consideration. This allows the surveyor to realize the true
relationships of the monuments and removes subjectivity in trying to
decide which monuments to accept or reject."
"The Help topics alone will more than likely
increase the average surveyor’s comprehension of several surveying
concepts. One of the most valuable of these is an explanation of the
problems created by maintaining the record distance across right’s
of-way instead of using proration. The program’s author clearly
understands the concept of that monuments control over distances, and
does an admirable job of explaining why this concept must be used in the
restoration of lost monuments."
James A. Folkers, R.L.S.
Survey Manager
The
WLB Group
523 North Beaver Street
Flagstaff, AZ 860001
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