use the National Weather Service to get temperature and pressure for input to my TS In your area that's fine. At higher elevations the reported pre...

Okay, for some P may be more important. My point was that he left out pressure/altitude..

temperature and humidity settings I thought the order of importance was temperature first, absolute air pressure (not the weatherman's pressure) se...

north is not a simple 180 degrees difference forward and backwards. Geodetic north and south are exactly 180 from each other. If there is an east-w...

Remember Nixon and the "sinister force" that erased 18.5 minutes of tape? That could truthfully mean the button was pushed with the left hand. (I thi...

So Mt. Rushmore may not be representative in this regard. A little search finds that Jefferson was right-handed but adapted to writing with his left a...

Wow! The numbers are adding up. I'm a righty - maybe that's why I never became a surveyor?

I worked hard a looong time ago to get all my 5 1/4" floppies copied to 3 1/2" floppies, and later all of those to CD's. Now I just use the flash driv...

I have a minimum of 3 flash (numbered) drives and rotate updates to them using the old XCOPY in a batch file that sits on my desktop. One double-click...

I think senior rights only apply when a parcel is divided and lots are sequentially sold off. This wouldn't apply in some jurisdictions to a recorded ...

local community college... Do they have those in Hong Kong where this poster's profile says he is?

There have been stories about surveyors for the CO2 pipeline company in Iowa, too.We went to an information meeting because one of the plans went clos...

alarm will turn on if the settlement reached 3mm Now that's a tight requirement. An engineer should know that there is always some uncertainty in ...

geodetic is negligent How irresponsible of it. I agree it is negligible at low elevations and moderate distances unless you are going for high ...

In a place or two in the above discussion there was confusion between geodetic north (which I would equate true north to) and astro north. They diffe...