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@ric-moore Cool indeed!
@peter-lothian Very cool!
Station "Hawe's Hill," copper bolt set in ledge by Simeon Borden or one of his crews, 1832. NGS PID MZ1504. The data sheet says monumented by the US S...
FYI scans of Kern GK1 manuals and brochures are available at:/p>
Where do old surveyors do their drinking? At the Subtense Bar. ?ÿ
I agree with @bill93 about how nonlinear least squares is implemented as an iterative procedure. But regarding the original questions from @amdomag, I...
@big-al I took a quick look at the above-linked case (Heald v. Zoning Bd. of Appeals of Greenfield, 7 Mass App. Ct. 286 (1979)), and then Googled to ...
@big-al Interesting; thanks! I will definitely take a look.
@norm-larson There was also the Gerber Variable Scale. Its history was a great example of ingenuity and entrepreneurship.
That is an interesting question about current practices or requirements in MA, but I believe in years past in MA (19th century, early 20th, maybe even...
@big-al I had a similar situation, in MA, buying land adjacent to land I already owned and wanting to build a barn on the new lot. The barn location ...
Can anyone identify the theodolite at 00:08? ?ÿ
@peter-lothian That's nice to know. I do find indexing errors (typically an off-by-one-page) from time to time. I think I've also found one or two in...
Follow up: I've left a voicemail for supposedly the correct person at the Registry to get the CD that @dgm-pls?ÿand @peter-lothian mentioned. And in t...
@not-my-real-name Was the link supposed to be simply for the masslandrecords / Middlesex South main page? I was wondering if it was to something spec...
@peter-lothian Thank you, Peter. I'm definitely going to get that CD! And thanks too for the tip about Worcester County.
@not-my-real-name Thank you for that information! I might give that a try for the plan that's of most interest right now. By the way, the link in you...
@dgm-pls Thank you for that tip! I’d think that these days any digital info they could put on a CD could just as easily be put on the Web. But,...