I was particularly interested in the Ia-Mo line since I grew up a dozen miles from it. I once found a copy of the 1850's Supreme Court reporter origin...

Find it with three measurements on points in a straight line (B in the middle). Correction = AC - (AB+BC)

"That'll cost you $xxx/hour for me to figure out."

There were 3 or 4 Iowa-Missouri boundaries considered, and the US Supreme Court went with the oldest one (Sullivan Line of 1816) It is interesting bec...

Sounds like it isn't getting better with age and editions.

I read it as 221?ø47'40", or even 221?ø48'00" but could easily be off one 20" mark either way. That would be angle-right 138?ø12'00" By comparing the ...

This may lead to it ?ÿ Kentucky v. Indiana, 474 U.S. 1 (1985)

Move the front pin to compensate.

Autocorrect apparently doesn't know Greek, as it should be pi.

Such foolishness is nothing new.?ÿ Here's one from our city GIS in a neighborhood laid out in 1958. I read the photocopy of the plat in the Recorder'...

And they didn't give a bearing for that 0.09 to the nearest second? ???œ?ÿ

Works for me, so long as people quote enough of a previous post that we know what they are responding to.

The Lucy mission is named after the fossilized skeleton of an early hominin, or pre-human ancestor, that was found in Ethiopia in 1974 and named ƒ??Lu...