Me thinks an appropriate term to use while working around fishing lakes would be perch and/or pole.
Richard, post: 434496, member: 833 wrote: Having grown through feet then metres, with links and chains tagging along, the mix of old surveys never causes an issue amongst surveyors and its a bit like being multilingual (I expect) as I can freely talk a mix of feet, chains and metres.
I'd imagine it must be confusing for the population though.
What do for egs, roads get measured in and buildings?
These days, typically only rural surveys that are retracements of original land grants would be reported in varas and, unless the survey is to be filed in the GLO, those are more likely to be in US Survey Feet.
Do your total stations spit out varas?
What about GPS grid coordinates? Are they in varas?
GPS vectors are in those French units that you use, i.e. metres, but they are invariably converted to US Survey Feet to express coordinates computed from them. Those grid coordinates in US Survey Feet (in Texas) can be converted to any unit at the press of a button, including the French units, Texas Varas, and US Survey Feet scaled by some scale factor pertaining to a map projection.
Kent I know it's what you're used to, as mentioned at start here, but for how long will it be before a certain generation says enough with all these multiple measurements?
I don't see any particular reason to abandon US Survey Feet or Texas Varas anytime soon. It's not as if Texas land is an export commodity.
Retaining the original units of a measurement is particularly important if only to retain precision of expression and some statement as to method. For example, when a line is reported as passing distinct intersecting features at 400 varas, 1020 varas, and 2580 varas, what does that tell a person about how the measurements were most likely made that converting those distances to 1111.11 ft., 2833.33 ft., and 7166.67 ft. does not?
I personally find the use of both historical and contemporary units to be completely unproblematic in a way that metrication would not be.
Kent McMillan, post: 434535, member: 3 wrote:
I don't see any particular reason to abandon US Survey Feet or Texas Varas anytime soon. It's not as if Texas land is an export commodity.
Retaining the original units of a measurement is particularly important if only to retain precision of expression and some statement as to method. For example, when a line is reported as passing distinct intersecting features at 400 varas, 1020 varas, and 2580 varas, what does that tell a person about how the measurements were most likely made that converting those distances to 1111.11 ft., 2833.33 ft., and 7166.67 ft. does not?
i agree wholeheartedly and even inasmuch as old surveys done in decimal feet are concerned. if i'm retracing anything that has calls that read, say: "25 feet to...," well then i'm fairly well satisfied that could mean anywhere from 24.51 feet to 25.49 feet.
i once sent a crew out for to hunt corners that i'd roughly calc'ed for a new r.o.w.- most of the deeds were either in varas or in integer feet precision. after two weeks i got more than a bit frustrated at the lack of progress they'd made, despite me telling them that the calcs were no better than a 10' radius guess. so i went out on a monday and, in about 3 hours, recovered more corners than the dang crew had in two weeks. and ended up holding virtually all of them, as the vast majority matched the original called-fors.
and yes- great example about the mentality of many modern b??u??t??t??o??n?? ??p??u??s??h?? field hands, but also about taking for granted the precision our current gear affords us.
Are you currently allowed to record surveys in varas? In North Carolina, distances in surveys must be in feet or meters and decimals thereof.
NCSpiralGuy, post: 434978, member: 12287 wrote: Are you currently allowed to record surveys in varas? In North Carolina, distances in surveys must be in feet or meters and decimals thereof.
Sure. The vara is an entirely lawful unit of measurement in Texas. In fact, there are some types of surveys that are REQUIRED to be in varas.