By the way, this is one of the topics that frequently falls victim to loose terminology. There are closed traverses and open traverses, and there are ...

@tony There was a surveyor in central Massachusetts, active in the 1980s (another surveyor who, I think, is his son is still active) who in 1986 surve...

For what it's worth, in Massachusetts, there's what's commonly called the "Derelict Fee Statute," enacted in 1971, Massachusetts General Laws Chapter ...

@base9geodesy I first read that article not long after it was published. Thank you for the reminder; it's a fun one.

Hmm, a couple of different attempts to include an Amazon link have not worked. Here’s a screen shot of the product listing:

By the way, you don’t need a genuine Topcon external power adapter (e.g. the AC-5). Get a DC buck converter from Amazon (see the example linked below)...

@thebionicman Thank you for your graciousness! It's for the good of the surveyorconnect! And, I see that the book is still available from the author(s...

Will you be posting a separate topic for each plat for sale, or is this a single sale for a batch of plats? Thanks!

That's amusing; my first thought was "That looks like an upside-down Mercedes hood ornament."

@jitterboogie “They never bat an eye at the Realtors' fee ever.” You never met my father.

Best wishes finding the part; the AP41 is a nice piece of equipment.

$135 (apologies, @thebionicman)

@native1 In the US, the 420–450 MHz band is allocated: in the Federal allocation table, to the radiolocation service (e.g. certain radars, such as the...

I do know honorable lawyers, so I hope this won't give offense: In French, the same word — "avocat" — means both "lawyer" and "avocado." Somehow, that...

@holy-cow Oscar Zerk was for sure a cool guy, but whoever wrote "While still in his teens, he devised an electrically operated textile machine control...

@bill93 The DEC PDP-11 computers truly were fun machines to program in machine language or assembly language. I still remember, from nearly 47 years a...

I think two different things are being discussed here. The OP asked about senior rights, which implies that there are at least two parcels, successive...

Isn't this simply the manufacturer's claim of how well the plummet's leveling system works and of the perpendicularity between the leveling system and...

@field-dog It looks to me like it's "post planted." Note the similarity (in the document) of the first character of each of those two words.