> Again, is this an art, profession, or science?Call it what you want, but its a job. There are professional engineers, professional surveyors, law...

Looks good Carl. one of the more unique survey vehicles I worked out of was a '78 CJ-7. 33" tires, 304 w/ a 4 speed. Anyways, that company was able to...

Sole proprietorship provides the least amount of protection should lawyers or creditors ever come after you - there is no separation between the indiv...

MI does. Its offered multiple times through out the year, and you only have to wait 90 days I believe if you fail it & need to retake it. I actual...

Great reply, thanks Earl!I'm going to plug the Hotine equations from Stem into Excel; I think its going to work far better (and easier) than the softw...

My model is still hanging up by a 100 m + or - compared to NGS for Alaska 5001 zone. I just found the Snyder / USGS publication online. He presents ex...

Loyal, the info I dug up on this system indicates it as a Hotine Skew Orthomorphic projection. It was developed by a Dr. Ralph Moore Berry @ Universit...

Yep, I used this document for the false northings / eastings, scale, azimuth of skew, lat & long @ origin etc. I'm not sure I can use the NGS tool...

Mike - thanks for the tip. Yep,definitely using natural log (ln).These obviously aren't state plane coords, as MI uses 3 zones of lambert conformal pr...

Emailed you. I'll have to check my profile to see if I have email enabled or not.edit - its enabled now

The survey that was done for my present lot, either the stamping PS never set foot on it, or if he did, he didn't bother to look over what he was stam...

$100 for a calculator based primarily on nostalgia - I think HP saw you nostalgia seekers coming! 😛

A/ Geology degree 4 yrs after high schoolB/ Survey engineering degree 23 yrs after high school

The span of my hand, from thumb tip to pinkie tip is 8-in