An injury can grab you about any time. Two weeks ago I was on a ten-minute walk to lunch with friends when I failed to notice the only patch of ice o...

@tickmagnet ChatGPT is at this time quite unreliable. It doesn't know, for instance, that someone can't get married after they die. It tries to do a...

The Surveyors Historical Society 2023 meeting is September 13-16 a little west of Houston. That would be another opportunity for people to meet.

It showed up 2 1/2 weeks ago The plumb bob icons seem to be located by their center instead of their points, which is confusing until you zoom in a...

Trying to imagine having to operate that precisely as you could get. wow. I seem to remember reading careful work under good conditions could get 5...

@rj-schneider You definitely need good eyesight. I think it was standard practice to carry a small magnifying lens.

Tell us more - date? History of owners/area used? On close inspection of the photos I now see it is Gurley.

@field-dog I guess in Florida terrain is a hypothetical concept.

@bstrand There are aspects that are much more important regarding flooding than the road. It would be possible to have a flood proof house lower tha...

The building code for my area requires that the finished floor elevation must be a minimum of eighteen inches above the crown of the road. Is there...

News reports today say tissue removed from Biden recently was basal cell carcinoma.

I bought some really cheap bargain bin 10 inch long screwdrivers with orange handles to serve as tape anchors, chaining pins, and probes.

A contender for the most misspelled word on this forum (right after parol): Your crew would need lath, not a lathe.

Another possibly useful checking site:

@tommy-young New profile picture - your g-great grandfather?

I don't think you can in practice get to the accuracy of an NGS CBL over those distances (typically around a mile and shorter portions). If long-term ...

I suppose you are familiar with Jerry Wahl's "Revenge of the Altitude Solar"

Could the top of your favorite tower move that much as the sun heats one side or the other?

My issue is morning observations returns 7-12” larger (CW) azimuths than afternoon observations. Are you using time or altitude method? The latter w...