My dad was a high school drafting teacher and part-time drafting instructor. At some point I picked up the idea that the segments of a line should be ...
@hi-staker I tried a hypothetical calculation. If a survey costs $2000, monuments last 25 years, and a simple lot needs 4 monuments, that's a cost of ...
I heard the bit about clean conversions for the initial point for both international feet and meters, but I didn't really follow what they were gettin...
Since we went to a foot, why didnt we just go to meters. I know why carpenters dont, but all our software and equipment is in meters and is converted ...
@bc-surveyor In addition to the possible need to uncompress the image to display it, I might want to examine the values of various pixels to evaluate ...
@jim-frame It's worth distinguishing lossless compression from lossy compression. An image that is still within the image sensor in the camera would b...
I've downloaded free topo maps from USGS that were in JPEG2000 format. I understand these can contain georeferencing information, but that's about all...
One syllable; right rhymes with sight, site, bright, and tight.
@mightymoe I decided to check how much the time matters by using the US Naval Observatory web page I mentioned in another post in this thread. The azi...
I've done astronomical observations just for my own education. If you're just doing it out of curiosity, you'll want to keep the cost down. The proced...
@jim-frame If the equipment was operated by a hobbyist under amateur rules, the narrowband requirement would not apply. That wouldn't apply to many me...
as in, each gps head unit needs its own license assigned to it to transmits corrections? My experience is with amateur radio and Civil Air Patrol,...
@native1 There are two issues with operating with an amateur radio license. I confidently guess that manufacturers expect users to operate on freque...
@jitterboogie When a mainframe job I submitted ABENDed it would often print out a core dump. I was in awe of the handful of programmers who could actu...
@mightymoe The procedure to change the assessed value of a property varies from state to state. In Vermont, you first file a grievance with the town l...
If you grant to the centerline, be sure to show the acreage with and without the ROW, so the owner doesn't have to pay property tax on the road.
@john-putnam Although in theory representative fractions are unitless, if one wishes to take a dimension off a drawing with a physical scale you hold ...
Please let me summarize my understanding of triangular drafting scales so you can tell me what I missed or got wrong. Architect scales are intended f...
@dave-lindell asked about metric maps. I'll generalize to any drawings. As a professional, I would find myself drawing, or ordering the computer to dr...
I owned an interest in a river-side property (Lamoille River, Vermont). It flows into Lake Champlain, which borders on two states and Canada, so is co...
