@keithscadservices To put it in my own words to see if I understand the original post: Unless data is entered into the total station or data collecto...
@rover83 When it comes to GIS folks (cowboys or otherwise) treating a surveyor's shapefile as gospel, it seems somewhat justified. As far as I can tel...
@mightymoe "I don't think shifting to real geodetic will be that big of a deal if we get industry wide computer programs supporting it." The trick is ...
@mathteacher about "plane coordinates may not be used at all in 2083, but using only lat/lon/height or XYZ coordinates poses other problems." One thin...
I'm running low on refrigerator magnets. Nearly all the sunscreen and lip balm out there is useless to me because I'm irritated by the 21st century in...
I see the original poster OleManRiver is in Virginia. The Virginia law allows an electronic seal, signature, and date provided "It is verifiable". Fro...
@mightymoe I think a better example of small differences in area potentially being costly is zoning. For example, if my lot were over 5 acres most bui...
@mathteacher Here's some airport marks that could use a little digging.
Teaching search and rescue team members a bit about land navigation, the most misunderstood grid-related concepts I've encountered are Keeping the d...
@flga-2-2 In college I was on a rowing team. One day I went to a workout and my watch wasn't working, so a teammate let me borrow her Goofy watch. The...
When some federal government agency wanted a unified approach to hazardous materials, they made it possible for every federal, state, and local emerge...
@olemanriver None of the local SAR teams I've talked to use United States National Grid. The single most popular emergency response land navigation to...
@geeoddmike The responders do not work with the USNG, but are vaguely aware of the military grid reference system (MGRS) and the UTM that it's based o...
@chris-bouffard I wouldn't bring up "datum" if nobody asked. But somebody did ask. Not only that, they thought that whether lat-long was expressed as ...
@norman-oklahoma In my state, surveyors under certain conditions are supposed to upload pdfs of certain surveys to a public site, but the law has only...
I'm a retired electronics engineer, not a surveyor, and most of my work was done in various versions of CAD, not on paper. (Even in the 1980s). I woul...
