What could possibly go wrong?

Inventing a time machine, going back in time and starting in SPC would be simpler...

"What could possibly go wrong?"

There is ever only ONE correct answer to that question...

"Everything, anything and all at the worst possible time."

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The Hitchhickers Guide To The Galaxy introduces the concept of the "Someone Else's Problem Field" - which has proven very handy in times like these

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Posted by: @dougie

Unless those sparks are hot enough to melt the hose AND the tanks are turned on, not much will go wrong. The hoses would not melt through or burn from those sparks during one grinding operation. There is no way the tanks will overheat.?ÿ

If it burns through a pressured acetylene hose (maybe 5 psi), you could have a sizable flame.?ÿ If the oxygen hose burns through first, the sparks will get hotter and could set some nearby combustible aflame.

I'm sure you will bring order (eventually) to the madness Bruce.?ÿ The fix is easy, just costly at this point.

Working for "National Engineers" who were requiring SPC's is where I learned to try as hard as possible to never provide such info. After months of discussion they admitted that they had "never" known what they were doing and had "never" performed a job properly. Over 15 years of work in all 50 states and several territories and countries!

The age old SPC conundrum, if the job is done in SPC it doesn't fit distances, nor record "true north" bearings. If you do it to fit distances and more or less "true north" bearings, computer jockeys can't handle it.

Why they can't? Beats me but sometimes it's easier to take the path of less resistance.?ÿ

I've been patting myself on the back after a meeting with an engineering group and their GIS department. For that project I did everything on SPC, although explaining why my acreages don't match theirs has been an ongoing struggle, over and over again. Cause you know they have to submit "correct" acreages.?ÿ

I don't have a good answer for you except they should use your original coordinate system, every computer program I know would handle it fine with metadata.?ÿ

Posted by: @mightymoe

The age old SPC conundrum...

Three words - "low distortion projection".?ÿ

If you really want to blow their minds, tell them they better hurry and get all this done because the government is changing the coordinates again in 2022!

@bill93

Is it so unusual to have a series of easement documents on different bases of bearings? Certainly it is much better to have consistency, but I think this can be worked through.

Long term answer is Low Distortion Projections. Best of both worlds - near enough to ground to ignore scaling if it is convenient to do so, while being tied to NSRS and enabling use of grid system.

In 2005 i can understand your logic but in today's world it's almost harder not to tie your data to state plane.?ÿ The downstream and upstream efficiencies are immeasurable