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@john-hamilton?ÿI was submitting files to NRCAN PPP today, and I was thinking how it's convenient that it can read the antenna type and ARP height tha...
Speaking of colliding surveyors... Boundary work was being done on a parcel that was adjacent to another undergoing construction. The first parcel's c...
@bill93 Great stuff, Bill. I started with the appendix, and I wonder if two corrections are needed near its end. In the next-to-last sentence, should ...
Thank you for sharing. ?ÿ
That's a fun project. I love finding old, abandoned apple trees. Central MA had many 19th-century and early 20th-century apple orchards. Fortunately, ...
@paul-in-pa While not so amusing as the other hypotheses, this does sound like the plausible explanation.
@just-a-surveyor Those are some real winners.
@holy-cow I think that's it! It was a prediction about the future outcome of a healthy, viable spruce stake. ????
And by the way, there are some other old-timey municipal offices that still exist in MA and I think in some other New England states, such as the fenc...
I don't know what work John Adams did as a "highway surveyor," but that office survives to this day in some Massachusetts towns or cities, and "survey...
@am95405 Thanks for sharing your blog post! The FieldFox looks like a great product, and this was a fun application for it. I grew up on the Hewlett-P...
@john-hamilton Thanks for sharing that report; it's been a tough one to track down.
Speaking of how far back records are available online, one can go to the South Middlesex (Middlesex County, MA) registry of deeds do a Recorded Land /...
Giving this a final bump before starting to cold-call surveyors in Fairfield County, CT.
@neodem I was curious about what other resources have been produced by the organization (Scotland's Rural Past) that made that plane table video ...
@neodem You're welcome. I've been busy and unable to follow this discussion for the past day or so. Some of what I'm going to write might now be redun...
@neodem Welcome, and good for you for wanting to try your hand at map making. Cartography, surveying, and geodesy are all beautiful subjects, and it d...
@gene-kooper Nice Aussie boy!
@ken-salzmann Very cool!