http://eng.auburn.edu/files/admin/cont-ed/t2/ellicott-mounds-glo-030915.pdf
This is a good course. It will be offered twice. One class will hunt down the original corners along the Tennessee/Alabama state line. The other will find the original mounds set by Ellicott during his survey of the U.S./Spanish international border.
The class is in danger of being cancelled if there aren't some more registrations.
I can't go. I hate it, but making a living gets in the way of the fun stuff.
I'd like to go, the class sounds pretty interesting, but I have commitments to make an appearance at the Arkansas Conference this Fall. I owe DDSM a cold beer or two. I have been trying to get over there for a few years now, but it has never worked out.
I also need to get back to Missouri this fall for their conference to make sure I stay caught up for their state specific stuff.
There is only so much money in the continuing education budget this year.
I was sorry I was unable to go to the Surveyors Historical Society event last year, and so missed the chance to look for Ellicott mounds.
I wonder if Milton Denny has taken into account the deflection of the vertical in his predictions of mound locations. This is essentially the difference between astronomic latitude as found by Ellicott and geodetic latitude as found by GPS. There was a paper out on how this effect related to the Mason-Dixon line showing that a big part of the difference was seen in the recovery.
In particular, there is a big change in the slope of this difference value at a couple places in the Ellicott line. If this is taken into account, along with proven inaccuracies in his astronimical line, much better GPS values will result.
