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Downloading the attachments to my prior post showed "Site wasn't available." Here they are again.
The HP 41CV emulator on my iPhone works great.
This topic is thoroughly addressed in a British textbook, Engineering Surveying, Sixth Edition, by Schofield and Breach. See chapter 7. Here's a...
Attached are the manual and an enhanced illustration page that I made up. Mine had a smeared optical scale that was a show-stopper.
@jim-frame If you could possibly share your errata, I for one would be interested in using it to correct my copy of the book.
I feel like Inspector Clouseau. "Now we're getting somewhere." I did research the maps of that corner and another one. Both trace back to monuments ...
@williwaw This question is as slippery as an eel. But allow me to try to grapple with it. I'd have no trouble drafting the parcel map data, checking...
This is a tough nut to crack. Let me take another try at it by narrowing it down to two questions, neither of which pertains to any new measurements: ...
@williwaw Thank you. I'm gradually converging on the right way to pose the question. I must be missing some information from the parcel map, becaus...
Thank you, especially to Landbutcher464MHz for your sketch which demonstrates impressive bandwidth! However, my question is different. Suppose all I...
My final verdict is "Set right-of-way hub and tack," as Gary first opined. This point is not the end of a tangent, and if it were, it would be called ...
Were 2" true-OD monuments in use in the 1960s, or was he using iron pipe and rounding off to 2"? Well were they? I doubt it. (And there's no such th...
Considering the context of the 1963 survey: It shows the proposed new road, The monument is located at the edge of the new road's right of way, The...
The next map of this area is by another surveyor in the same firm (which is still in operation) in 1965. Between the 1963 and 1965 maps, Bear Creek Rd...
If all you need is a graphical depiction of the metes and bounds text, try. It also can output a KML file to import into Google Earth--again, just for...
Thank you all for your very helpful answers. And to answer Rover83's inquiry, yes, you might say I'm an owner-surveyor, a PE mechanical but not an L...