@nate-the-surveyor?ÿ Link:?ÿ?ÿ/p>

reddit is a jungle, with no entry qualifications, low expectations for quality posts, and minimal supervision. Also confusing as it sticks things in t...

There is always a more clever idiot.

@holy-cow?ÿ That isn't half as confusing as states where there aren't enough cardinal roads to have a grid system.?ÿ Or the naming in some of the eas...

I'd prefer the term "subjective north" or "intuitive north", because I don't usually get very emotional over it as long as I can figure out the truth,...

@wagner152?ÿ And how do you get the adjoiner to understand that those are offsets and not on the property line? A circled 1.0 isn't going to be obvio...

Obviously the distance criterion would be different for a 40 acres last surveyed in 1960 versus a recent high-priced development.

After the first explanation, there was no use in repeating it. It was a yes/no question, not an essay question. The answer suggested by Radar should h...

The 4 best ways to lie: Tell part of the truth and stop there. Tell the truth in such a way you won't be believed. Let the other person guess wrong...

Alaska's Attu Island is several degrees longitude on the "other" side of the 180 degree meridian.

Well, if not useless, at least degraded. The signals do reflect to some extent. There are tricks that the receiver designers can do to try to capture ...

The biggest problem under trees is not signal strength, but multipath where the travel times from the satellites are not consistent.

I'll guess all true, with a little weasel wording. The tallest mountain if you measure from its base, but not the highest by elevation of the peak. ...

I don't understand how you can call it a survey if it doesn't leave monuments.?ÿ What were the measurements made to?

I wouldn't start with 180 degrees. The probability distribution of someone looking at a point in the sky they know is near north and transferring it t...

@olemanriver?ÿ Not to many folks left that can do astro observations to Polaris or sun or a few other stars Anybody who can use a total station or...