Sorry the photo is slightly blurry, my phone is like that. One picture is fantastic and the next is slightly blurry.
In your living room.....hopefully at least wearing underwear.....
Rankin_File, post: 359952, member: 101 wrote: In your living room.....hopefully at least wearing underwear.....
There's a literalist in every crowd; okay 9 out of 10 surveyors are literalists.
Here's another:
This 1/16th corner fit almost flat; it's off 0.01', I guess I'll accept it:
Dave Karoly, post: 359951, member: 94 wrote: Sorry the photo is slightly blurry, my phone is like that. One picture is fantastic and the next is slightly blurry.
TELEGRAPH HILL?
Based on the second photo, you are in Woodson County, Kansas. Have no idea about the first one.
Loyal is correct; that is on Telegraph Hill, so-called, because in the early 1850s there was a visual telegraph up there. The telegraph signaled to the town of San Francisco below identification of ships sailing into harbor. Jameson's other Grandmother visited from Alabama so we took her on a tour of San Francisco; including Crissy Field, Ocean Beach, Golden Gate Park, and Lombard Street. Coit Tower:
My PLAZA is beyond mundane by comparison. It's in downtown Greensboro, NC at the Governmental Plaza, roughly
N36 04 17, W79 47 30. It, along with LUCY, BANK, and a few others in Guilford County were at the beginning of my personal journey into the subtleties of state plane, ellipsoid, and ground distances. There were also a few cell towers, some airport runways (one in Ohio), and some CBLs in that mix.
The last time I looked at my PLAZA on Street View, it was marked by orange paint. Maybe it's one that the Power Squadron could find? The high school that I retired from is a few blocks west of the mark. I often thought about doing a lab with my precalculus students using PLAZA and another mark or two. But pressure to cover the mandated curriculum and the hassle of permission slips for a two-block walk seemed to make it less attractive. It would have been a heck of an exercise in real-world applications of models, coordinate systems, and angles, though.
Ah, for the days when teachers could teach! Please forgive the diversion.
Ours our named after Popeye characters. POPEYE, BLUTO, OLIVEOYL and SWEETPEA
Plaza has two RMs too.
MathTeacher, post: 359966, member: 7674 wrote: My PLAZA is beyond mundane by comparison. It's in downtown Greensboro, NC at the Governmental Plaza, roughly
N36 04 17, W79 47 30. It, along with LUCY, BANK, and a few others in Guilford County were at the beginning of my personal journey into the subtleties of state plane, ellipsoid, and ground distances. There were also a few cell towers, some airport runways (one in Ohio), and some CBLs in that mix.The last time I looked at my PLAZA on Street View, it was marked by orange paint. Maybe it's one that the Power Squadron could find? The high school that I retired from is a few blocks west of the mark. I often thought about doing a lab with my precalculus students using PLAZA and another mark or two. But pressure to cover the mandated curriculum and the hassle of permission slips for a two-block walk seemed to make it less attractive. It would have been a heck of an exercise in real-world applications of models, coordinate systems, and angles, though.
Ah, for the days when teachers could teach! Please forgive the diversion.
It looks like if was noted as found 2/01/16 and looks clean on the 2015 Google imagery.
This 1/16th corner fit almost flat; it's off 0.01', I guess I'll accept it
It obviously has been disturbed by mice. :stakeout:
Someone put a dimple on that section corner, looks to be your .01' as it doesn't line up with the section lines. It's like a tiny pincushion.B-)
MightyMoe, post: 359994, member: 700 wrote: Someone put a dimple on that section corner, looks to be your .01' as it doesn't line up with the section lines. It's like a tiny pincushion.B-)
You can always get a nail and put a little dimple of your own 0.01 to the side
Rich., post: 359995, member: 10450 wrote: You can always get a nail and put a little dimple of your own 0.01 to the side
That would solve it:bye:
MightyMoe, post: 360006, member: 700 wrote: That would solve it:bye:
Never know. In 20 years we will probably be using equipment measuring to the 0.0001' and staking with fiber sized toothpicks
You end up with 2 dimples and a fiber between them
Dave Karoly, post: 359953, member: 94 wrote: There's a literalist in every crowd; okay 9 out of 10 surveyors are literalists.
Here's another:
This 1/16th corner fit almost flat; it's off 0.01', I guess I'll accept it:
Or... You're measurement is off 0.01' and the 1/16th corner fits perfectly!
ekillo, post: 359971, member: 773 wrote: It looks like if was noted as found 2/01/16 and looks clean on the 2015 Google imagery.
The March, 2012 picture shows the orange paint along with a pushcart vendor with some Cotten candy bags. Years ago, a young lady pushcart vendor started wearing a bikini to work at a corner a few blocks from this one. She went out of business after a few weeks.
She probably didn't have enough assets to support her business.
Dave Karoly, post: 359953, member: 94 wrote: There's a literalist in every crowd; okay 9 out of 10 surveyors are literalists.
Here's another:
This 1/16th corner fit almost flat; it's off 0.01', I guess I'll accept it:
Is this Fresno County? Or further south? That LS number looks familiar to me. I think that I've found a few monuments with that tag before. But I don't remember if it was Fresno County or Tulare.
And the Coit Tower photo is awesome. Where is that PLAZA monument? I'll have to visit that next time I'm in SF.
Dave Karoly, post: 359953, member: 94 wrote: There's a literalist in every crowd; okay 9 out of 10 surveyors are literalists.
Here's another:
This 1/16th corner fit almost flat; it's off 0.01', I guess I'll accept it:
If that brass cap is MDM, then it's SW of Coalinga, near a community called Parkfield. The LS is a guy named Simpson, listed by BPELSG as living in SLO County. We've located some of his irons in western Fresno County.
Ah yes, Coalinga. And I believe I found some of Simpson's tags closer to the tiny city of San Joaquin in Fresno County.
