And for your enjoyment, a quick sketch of the particular block I am working on. Block 55, Twp. 1 & 2, T&P Ry Co Survey.

No, the court order says how to reconstruct. The original surveyor was substantially lacking in his field work. Not saying it was an office survey, bu...

Come on, Paden. We've already established what I am trying to do and it looks like Page 129. I'm not doing local east or east bearing. I need to calcu...

I always thought East was perpendicular to North and by definition has to be an arc. I'm having a hard time believing that a line of latitude is not c...

The instructions for my reconstruction are to set block corners at 6 miles on the arc. The section corners inbetween are set on straight lines between...

The only thing I don't understand is why my Latitude is slipping. I thought that if you start out on a given latitude and head due east, your latitude...

And, the NGS program matches what I had previously calculated within 0.08' which I will attribute to a difference in rounding. Thanks again, Bill.

Thank you, I will look at that. I used the above formula to calculate a point and then checked it against Paden's cookbook link. My point was with 0.4...

JPH, it was on their specials page but I did realize it was a mistake. I have advised them of the errors that I found, recommended they add a terms an...

I think this is the formula that I actually needed. Given a known point, in this case a found monument, heading due east for six sections. ì 2 = asin(...

They removed the total station finally but the Spectra Precision Digi Rod is still available for a great price.

Oh, I wrote the wrong supplier name. It was Allen Instrument Company, not Allen Precision. My mistake. And as of a few minutes ago, the mistake is STI...

Yeah, the website was not something I wanted to spend much time with. Way too busy and not friendly to people unfamiliar with javad lingo.

jerry m. davis, post: 326396, member: 417 wrote: They always had all six of those pusher engines running for take off. Very seldom were all six props ...

jerry m. davis, post: 325906, member: 417 wrote: The B-36 aircraft came over on temporary duty tours of 90 days out of the Air Base at Fort Worth. We ...

Would it help or confuse things to show both the "Highway Department Section Line" and "Monumented Section Line" or some labels to that affect to show...