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Every once in a while I follow a surveyor that sometimes used degrees, minutes, decimal minutes instead of the usual degrees, minutes, seconds. His plats are the only ones I ever recall using that format. The inexperienced crew chief could get burned by mistakenly trying to use the decimal minutes as seconds. The first time I encountered that format, I wasn't sure about my interpretation until I tried closing the plat. Probably took half an hour since I had to convert every course to ddmmss. I couldn't figure out how to get the hp48 data collector to accept the ddmm.m format. Was that format common in other areas?
Me. "What's the difference?"
T.C. Carroll "It's the difference between right and wrong!"
Posted : March 19, 2023 2:23 am