@kevin-hines I see the original poster is in Vermont, as am I. I'm not a land surveyor, I'm a justice of the peace, and my connection with land matter...

@tfdoubleyou I once ate lunch in a cafeteria where the sandwich meat had spoiled. I complained, and told the manager I had lost my appetite, and got a...

I tried to find a suitable old publication to figure out the answer before NAD 83 came along. At the NGS publications page I found a publication 62-3 ...

I don't get involved in precision location of points, but I do use GIS in connection with real estate taxes in my role as a justice of the peace in Ve...

The original poster did not provide the original all the way to the edge of the paper. Sometimes important information is placed near the edges of the...

@bill93 Thinking about it, I believe the arrival of the various signals are timestamped against the receivers internal clock. This is known to be inac...

@bill93 About MICA: the Delta-T file is out of date, so you would have to work in Terrestrial Time (formerly known as ephemeris time) and correct for ...

@ppm How land surveyors and other design professionals are allowed to sign electronic drawings are all over the lot (pun intended). There are some met...

If surveyors needed to go back to astro observations, I'll bet the first problem they would find is the supply chain wouldn't be able to keep up with ...

I found what might be the HUD document. The link to the relevant handbook is The document appears to require that wells be at least 10 feet from a pr...

@lunarfaze I don't think the intent is to give homeowners and town employees an abstract number of 40 feet located somewhere, with a surveying degree ...

As for group delay and phase advance, I'm not able to give a full derivation, and an online forum isn't a convenient place to write a scientific paper...

A broader question is the case where one of the laws about professions and occupations allows members of a certain occupation to do X, but another law...

@ric-moore "The manner in which this question is written wouldn't (shouldn't) pass normal psychometric item criteria used by NCEES." Are these criter...

@jacavell Generally, works created by employees of the United States are not eligible for copyright protection; they are in the public domain. This is...

@shawn-billings I just listened. The tick for second 9 is doubled.

Congratulations. Consider what media, if any, you will be stamping. The inks that work on paper don't work well on mylar. There is special ink that i...

@jschuchert Sorry, I have very little tolerance for buggy installation procedures. I will not be looking at this any further.