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> Forgive me for being ignorant, but isn't a basis of bearing to be between 2 found (or set) monuments. Thus it can be duplicated without any ques...
WAAS> I think the point was that you can project any lat/long into state plane coordinates, whether they're derived from NAD83, ITRF, or whatever. ...
WAASSat Al wrote:"State Plane is a coordinate system. UTM is a coordinate system."NAD83 is a datum. ITRF is a datum."You can have SPC/NAD83 coordinate...
fattiretom didn't say why the parcel data is being put on the topo. If it is for a purpose that is not-well served by the data on the map, I'm not sur...
I studied electrical engineering, not civil, but I would expect there would be a fair amount of information covered by civil engineering (even if ther...
Try your local land mobile radio dealer. The prices you mention seem a bit high.
The alternatives to Adobe Acrobat I played the most with are Microsoft Word 2010 and LibreOffice. Neither of these will let you digitally sign, encryp...
In my Vermont town, opening the binding to make a good copy is just fine. The food, drink, and sloppy placement of the loose pages, not so much.
What the locals call "wild parsnip" is widespread in west-central Vermont. It's rumored to have the same kind of bad effects as giant hogweed. " haven...
I notice that GIS is largely about looking up and correlating spatial information. Much of land surveying has been about boundary surveys. But the spa...
I also use Password Safe. It's recommended by Bruce Schneier who knows some stuff about ciphers and seems fairly sensible. Also, a Linux version is av...
What about the monuments? Would you rather have 4 or 8?
Reminds me of the donut exec where I used to work. If you came across an unattended, unlocked computer, you would just type donut on the keyboard, and...
I have the impression GIS tools have a way to go before they're ready for millimeter accuracy long term data. Aren't they kind of fuzzy about which vi...
".our data is cr*p."Just to be clear, the CA head honcho meant that the data obtained and used by the GIS community is crap, right? "Our" didn't mean ...