Native Americans Did Not Own The Land, The Great Spirit DidThey didn't claim ownership, but they did have some disputes with neighbors over hunting an...

It definitely needs to be better than the rather-too-common "Easterly line of tract is assumed North". That might as well be left off because it tell...

There should be no need for a deed. Each owns a described tract, but there's some uncertainty in the boundary between them. Messing with title is no...

How many Veras in a Smoot? We're going backward in our units, instead of forward to metric. :-S

Houston, Texas...Or it could have been because of your hair, 1970?I met Houston in the middle of July. Stepped off the plane and smelled what I suspe...

:good:If he hasn't offered to find corners for a fee, you haven't seen him set a corner, and he isn't filing plats, then you don't have much to report...

This is a sidetrack to the original question about dealing with existing laws. But I agree that boundary licensing should be separated from geodetic,...

It's my impression that the reason inertial is little used in surveying is the drift rate of the measurements. They are stable enough to perhaps map ...

Is the inertia of the robot twisting the tripod? Do you have a tribrach with a little horizontal slop in the leveling screws?Sounds like you don't ne...

Should have been easy, but it didn't come up in Wikipedia, and the first entry on Google got me a map service that SAID coordinates of center of map, ...

Looks like it won't be long until it topples. Does anybody still care about it?

I couldn't find it in a quick look in the NGS data base. Has the master elevation for such a large city never been entered there?

What about the danger of the bullet falling on someone? That was mentioned but not discussed. You are trying to shoot vertically, so it would land pr...

Wow! Pretty hard-hitting.