I need a simple phrase to discount the idea of using a distant object to "control" boundary location.
the price of tea in china?
Distances from opposing control points are subject to a degradation of accuracy that increases with the length of vector.
I don't know but I sure got a laugh out of that "fornicate with frogs" phrase proffered in another thread.
The buck stopped over there. Leave it there.
"You can't see it from here."
Despite the phrase a distant object may be the strongest and possibly the only extant call.
Paul in PA
Keep the errors contained!
BSA, post: 428109, member: 1122 wrote: I need a simple phrase to discount the idea of using a distant object to "control" boundary location.
Question is a bit vague, can you elaborate?
leave sleeping dogs lie...
Beginning at an iron shaft in the intersection of Murphysboro Pike and Turner Lane, thence seven miles along said Murphysboro Pike to the point of beginning; thence.................................................
Is the argument that the iron shaft is the definitive portion of the overall description?
BSA, post: 428109, member: 1122 wrote: I need a simple phrase to discount the idea of using a distant object to "control" boundary location.
"Them CORS antennas is pure bunk and they all refer to some point way inside the Earth that no one has ever seen," would be one.
A more serious one, if the real problem is boundary retracement "The problem inherent in using some bearing and distance calculated from a remote point from the records of early surveys to re-establish some corner is that experience shows it invariably to be less reliable than a method that relies upon evidence nearer to the corner in question that would tend to show the locations in which lines were actually run and corners actually marked."
64 words a simple phrase do not make.
And how could the owner reasonably taped an accurate location from that monument
Holy Cow, post: 428146, member: 50 wrote: 64 words a simple phrase do not make.
Alrighty then, how about "That dog don't hunt". I have a few boiler plate phrases that I've used more than a few times on various matters. In the era of cut-and-paste, brevity isn't always required.
A perfect world where surveyors were able to measure long distances without appreciable errors has only existed in West Virginia in modern times. Before then, it was anything but.
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We shouldn't let "long ago, and far away" overule good local evidence.
BSA, post: 428109, member: 1122 wrote: I need a simple phrase to discount the idea of using a distant object to "control" boundary location.
Wrong (except when it's right)
Holy Cow, post: 428146, member: 50 wrote: 64 words a simple phrase do not make.
Fixed it.
"The problem inherent in using some bearing and distance calculated from a remote point from the records of early surveys to re-establish some corner is that experience shows it invariably to be less reliable than a method that relies upon evidence nearer to the corner in question that would tend to show the locations in which lines were actually run and corners actually marked."
You can't get here from there.