> > Not sure which way you are reporting, but a "short chain measures long". So if the chain had bends, etc, and hence was short, the length yo...
Yeah.... but only if he wants to make money as opposed to being a boss of surveyors.
I'm no expert here, but I would suggest that any new projects you do in Geoid 12, and you don't update the older projects. Make sure you publish your...
Sounds like you been reading politics and religion again. 😉
Funny...I was cleaning up the garage and found an old T1 users manual. I was thinking of logging in and asking if anyone had an old t1 without a manu...
> From Herbert Ehrig, Professor @Alfred State College circa 1979-> "Surveying is 50% research, 50% retracement, and the rest is measurement":goo...
> Would any of those monuments have been used by anyone other than the client over the years?Other surveyors or not, don't you think they would be ...
Thanks Loyal. Good explanation. I felt funny about calling it an elevation factor, because I knew it wasn't based on the height above the geoid.I do...
There are two main factors....grid scale factor which is a factor to go from a "plane" to the curved surface at the ellipsoid. and the "elevation (or...
> It depends on where this is. I work in at least one area where its almost 6' in 10000'-at sea level. Not that there is any ground at sea level th...
> Hot water and soap cleans skoal deposits quite well! > > :)> > NWarning if you use soap it ruins the taste 😉
I think it has to do with the ellipsoid/geoid separation and the conversion between meters and feet. Regardless, both are expresses to the nearest 1/...
> It was incredibly tempting to merely set the new bar without digging. That's not me. Had to do the search or I wouldn't have slept well for a ...
Hmmm....not as cool as a helicopter, but; We were doing a survey with long traverse lines through commercial and residential areas. (Back in the 80's...
> My question is, what is the length of the line; 88.96+89.13 or 178.10?> > > DuggerCorrect. It is 88.96 + 89.13, or 178.10.;-)
adamsurveyorKeith, My only difference in wording is because if Robillard says that the proper center of section is at the intersection of opposing cor...