If a master of a ship steers the ship on a constant compass bearing (lets suppose its a gyroscopic compass or GPS unit that derives a geodetic compass...

Maujakakana Rutjani, post: 326890, member: 10192 wrote: Okay thanks. And lets say if you want to become a land surveyor. Between a 4 years BSc Eng in ...

But for property surveys, the finished product is the information that reaches the homeowner who wants to know just where to dig up the lawn and plant...

Is it fair to rephrase the situation as a return of survey exists which documents the methods of the original construction crew (who may have been wor...

One of the statutes in question says§ 32. Assumed width of right of wayA roadway width of one and one half rods on each side of the center of the exis...

It turns out to make D-M-S entry work, one must enter at least three digits after the decimal point for the seconds field; the digits can be 0.

I just tried it. It didn't seem to update the decimal degrees when I entered the D-M-S format, and gave nonsensical results. Maybe the results corresp...

I don't know how the leap second affects GPS units. I do know that technically, in the time laboratories, the leap second is added on to the end of Ju...

Another complication is that sometimes the property owner owns to the center of the road, and the public enjoys a easement or right-of-way (ROW) over ...

If it gets enough publicity, the price of gasoline just might plummet. Back around 2000 when IBM announced it would use copper instead of aluminum in ...

I was one of the smaller guys in a volunteer fire company. When they were looking for turnout gear for me, they found a nice new set that fit me just ...

This reminds me of the software from the 90s that filtered out, or rejected attempts to enter, vulgar language. Unfortunately the filtering was someti...

:good: NY wasn't as nice for the PE exam. I got a letter from them, opened it, and the first thing I saw was a form to fill out to retake the test. Af...

I believe one of the buzzwords for the test computer setup is "air gap". Before WiFi and Bluetooth, it implied there were no cables running from the t...

Did I read it correctly? It seemed to me the court only decided whether the surveyor would be allowed to file a class action lawsuit rather than a law...

I have heard about NWS personnel visiting sites of severe weather to determine what kind of weather event occurred. They look at things like the direc...

Try setting up a bootable malware elimination tool on a different computer and booting your computer from the bootable cd or thumbdrive. In some scena...

CON -invasion of privacy issuesMy suggestion would be to allow surveys to be kept private, but private surveys could only be used by the person who pa...

Would this be something like John Smith born March 28, 1915 is a different person than John Smith, born March 28, 1915, are not the same person, and i...