Holy Crap! (Can I say that here?)
I'm not even sure right now what my point was, but I have a suspicion that you just made it for me.
Thanks, and a tip of the nicely- buzzed hat.
Don
Very impressive memory, Mr. Cow!
Don
who cares?
or maybe i should say, I don't, but I haven't tried, either.
well, that looks kinda harsh, now.
It's just not that important to me to chase down millimeters.
I'm a surveyor, not a watch maker.
besides, the fence is the line, anyway, and I are-tea-kayed it.
Nate, I hear you, and it's refrehing to hear someone admit a lack of knowledge. I've got a degree in engineering, and it's served me well, I've been able to learn the ms and outs of boundary surveying through OJT. I Consider myself a good boundary surveyor. I consider myself not a construction surveyor, that's nit to say I've never laid out a jobsite though. Construction is one part of the puzzle that I need to improve. The other part is the statistics and geodetic math that all our black boxes have been generating for us. I agree with you, Nate, a country surveyor like me can go an entire career without knowing the stats and spherical trig stuff. As long as we understand the legal principles, we can serve our clientele and the general public perfectly fine.
Now, I've got enough of a career ahead of me that it made sense to me to go back to school and catchup with the geomatic math that I never got while in engineering school. So, I took advantage of the super deal at the university of Maine to go after an advanced degree. I admit it... I need more of a background to understand the high powered math that the super mathletes on this board evidently have, or at least display. That's why I call it an engineering and surveying "practice."
