Sounds crazy I know. But one engineer I work with will design some roads, pads, ponds using even numbers. In other words, when he places a pad for a well site he will tweak it so it is S10dE, 150', S80dW, 340', ect. even numbers as much as possible. Now I'm designing some conservation exclusions and it's so much easier to do it that way. These aren't staked or following any type of exact location so why not.
A LONG time ago I was the young surveyor in an engineer's office meeting with the old surveyor who had surveyed our new townhouse site. I had computed the new road centerlines to the nearest second, thanks to my relatively new Cogo program. He lit into me for showing any seconds, explaining that WHEN one makes an error (not IF) there is a good chance you will not see it with those multi-digit second bearings. Having even seconds makes it very likely the error will jump out and you save time fixing it. I have used that tip ever since.
And in a similar note, a few years later I learned that another old surveyor, who did much of the work in town, also showed bearings to the nearest minute only. However, his work sheets disclosed he never did the computations, just drafted things without seconds.
Ken
Ok, I've had these five conservation exclusions changed now about 4 times.
So glad I've simplified them.
Three are rectangles, one is a parallelogram, and one is irregular. But I've made them even degrees, north, south, east, west and even feet where possible. Time saver when I designed them, but once they were changed it made those changes go so much faster.
One thing that drives me nuts as a reviewer is finding the same line having different bearings by a second or more somewhere along the line. Example: Shots were taken at each end of a line being 1492.40 feet in length. That line is broken into five sections at varying gaps. The true line, if you will, is something and 11 seconds. The first section says something and 12 seconds. Another section says something and 9 seconds, Etc., etc.
Even worse is finding the various sections add up to 1492.38 or 1492.42 despite the total being shown as above.
Mr. Haven't taken a crap since Y2K.