Weather here in eastern Iowa has been routine this week - some snow, the plows go, and life goes on. Back on Nov 29 was our first serious snow and so ...

The Harbor Freight multimeter for less than ten bucks (used to be 5) is useful and cheap enough to have one in every home, office, and vehicle. It do...

Was it Loyal Olson who was our expert on spirals? For circular curves I made a program that deals with both RR and hiway curve definitions. The link...

There are PDF files available for some editions.

One way to compare surveys would be to enter the new survey coordinate data in Starnet with fairly tight tolerances, and your angles and distances (no...

BTW, welcome back. We had some interesting exchanges back then.

In 1980 the coordinates would have been in NAD27, and would have been much different from Vermont SPC for NAD83. If the sets of coordinates are withi...

A friend who knows I like that kind of stuff picked one up for me at a garage sale for $5. At first glance there are two problems The leather strap ...

Sometomes passing a strong magnet over the area suspected of harboring an iron will leave enough magnetism for the detector, especially if the iron i...

Some long time ago the inch was defined as 2.54 cm for international industrial purposes. That's the connection for "international." That was 2 ppm di...

I disagree with the math but agree with the conclusion-you will never put the replacement exactly where the original was by measurements. Permutation ...

That seems backward, as around here 1/2 was very common until the standards called for 5/8.  

>Clearly, they are putting a cloud on your client's title, They are not calling into question the title to a piece of land. If the party unambigu...

Electronic copy of book

Some of these models are listed on eBay at prices that might be worth your time. If you are going to the SHS event in Marietta, you might find some ...