Some years ago I bought a Brother laser printer, about the cheapest in the store. It does a good job. But I found two hacks on line that almost double...

It's important to distinguish between angle-only resections which were once prominent, versus angle and distance "resections" sometimes called free st...

miniature pocket tape measures ... only 6 feet long I've seen a few little advertising tapes, and all fail to meet the standards of accuracy of maj...

14.4 modems. I started out on a 2400 bps modem. I recall other people earlier using 300 bps phone couplers.

a USGS geodetic benchmark I hope you mean National Geodetic Survey (NGS) bench mark, as most of the USGS marks are not of sufficient quality to be ...

I've appreciated the flash drives loaded with the presentation materials that the Surveyors Historical Society has given out.

then slope easement(where there are no slopes) I think that is the key.

@dave-lindell I see now. This shows closing corners on both north and south lines. They would only have those if one of the lines was a standard p...

I don't see that being east of the principal meridian has any effect here. The standard corners were marked along a township line, and now we're subdi...

the NAD 83 coordinates were derived from those earlier coordinates I think the NAD83 coordinates were derived from the old measurements plus new me...

@not-my-real-name Have you read Norman Van Valkenburgh's books? He was a surveyor and turned out two or three novels and some history of the Catskil...

Math Teacher is obviously one. I'm another.I was an electrical/software engineer. I grew up with Dad always checking who was selling land to whom via...