One could hope his crew was just bad at measuring but the monuments are there.

3. Is there ever confusion about what the surveying instrument is reporting? For example, are measured distances grid or ground, or are GPS coordinate...

#3 is easily workable if and only if one assumes that unicorn, a perfectly aligned and dimensioned section.

Try a search of the forum. I think there have been relevant threads.

This will bump to first page and get more attention. I think you might find some relevant threads if you search the forum.

When shooting straight on to a prism, the choice doesn't matter so long as you are using the right constant for it. When the prism isn't pointed dir...

@rplumb314 Scientific calculators existed as early as 1968, but were quite rare because they cost as much as a good car. Another guy and I in colle...

If you slide the map around the points disappear from one side and pop up on the other side. So what you noticed is an accident of the view positionin...

I'd still like to understand the 44 km mystery.

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@paden-cash "It's a free-for-all when someone gets a hold of a current address." And the spam goes on for years. I have an email address that I use...

@mercer The given coordinates indeed look like UTM and the northing seems to fit Goulds (assuming zone 22T), but I also find about 44 km difference ...

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