Well, after only 8 years from the OP, I am sitting for the Kansas Exam tomorrow.?ÿ Not sure if we have enough artificial satellites orbiting mars to ...

+/-163 feet N70?øW by my calcs. Considering it all, amazingly close. In the heart of Apacheria. A few miles south of Victorio's last battle in Texas a...

Yes, the coordinates published on the datasheets are in varas. We succesfully located 2 rock mounds and a 4"x4" cedar hub (disturbed). The hub is ly...

@jamesf1 Glad you will get some utility out of it. We are headed back up the trail in the morning with a bigger cup of ambition and some fresh brewed ...

Well that's a great article. I was wondering what to call it and NAD makes sense with the updates being NAD27 and NAD83. I need to recheck my distanc...

@bill-c In my area, Diablo, Diablo Cairn and Eagle are mentioned. As are several railroad stations and water tanks that no longer exist. I looked at N...

I just noticed that the coordinates appear to be in varas. In Texas 1 vara = 33-1/3 inches.

He has some nice sketches.

Looking back at my post almost 3 years ago, looking back at "these old posts". Still wondering why Kuechler and McCombs did what they did. Headed back...

More than six years later, I'm still dealing with this. I wish there was a way to drop unlicensed surveyors under the jail. We probably need legislati...

@samlucy3874 I think I'm going to get a copy of that book. My library could use some expansion. I found a copy of one on ebay, but if you'd like to se...

@a-harris, there's another agency which isn't open either. Even if they had it, nobody's making copies right now.

$20,001 to $30,000

" But i did borrow a GPS that used GPS and GLONASS and have all but a few of my instrument locations and backsights in UTM for PA State Plane South." ...

It was a requirement pushed on the TBPELS by the Sunset Committee. Same ones that merged surveyors with the engineers (engineers and architects have b...

Andy Nold?ÿDeral, can you log on to?ÿRPLS Today?ÿand update us? I know it's not Mark Deal's?ÿr_p_l_s.com, but.. most of the people who contributed to ...

The first time I crossed the Red River on a northerly vector, I met RADU, Michael, and TrimbleMan. I think we met at Cracker Barrel? TM looked like Ca...