Better explanation than mine.
Sure it can. Consider an infinitesimal surface at the point. Similar to how many angels that can dance on the head of a pin.:-)
Try looking up the "Principal Problem of Geodesy." It has a little bit to do with elliptic integrals of the second kind. Clairaut's theorem is used ...
Your "Geometric Mean Radius of Curvature" is known as the Radius of the Gaussian Sphere. That is what is used to determine scale factors versus avera...
Having a reliable (and accurate) Vertical Reference Frame with concomitant geoid model will allow GPS Leveling operations anywhere in the country with...
When they put a potato ridge on a levee it goes up to 18':-)
From what I have observed, it is a custom among Hispanic peoples and some Mediterranean cultures. My daughters had their ears pierced when they were ...
The national "Instituto Augustin Codazzi" is the country's mapping agency. Most countries in Latin America specifically go there for education in the...
Neighbors and orphansMy late mother was orphaned with her siblings in early childhood and the four children were taken in by two Irish old maids that ...
I have been informed that the digital levels have the rod's bar code image programmed into the instrument's memory, and when you take an observation, ...
This actually was used extensively by the Czarist Topographic Corps before the Russian Revolution. They set triangulation towers made of wood scantli...
The fellow that runs the monthly Bullseye Pistol Matches in Pensacola, Florida had double knee surgery about 8 years ago. He had been bowlegged all h...
That's a common optical illusion when looking at stereo pairs of rivers with boats/barges in motion. Oftentimes you can view zillion-ton ships floati...
As a VERY junior second lieutenant I once watched her chew out a three-or four-star admiral. She was a character!
Each year, the Civil Engineering students here at LSU design their own American Society of Civil Engineers T-shirts. About 7-8 years ago, I did a dou...
Paul in PA is correctYears ago, the early EDMs had a variable instrument constant from one time turning it on to another. NGS discovered this and dev...
Itty-bitty but mo' bettah.
If you're going to fiddle with all of the "custom" stuff,Don't forget the oblique stereographic, the oblique conic, and the oblique Mercator. Dependi...
When computed from a theoretical geoid, yes. There's only one ellipsoid, but that's theoretical. There's only one geoid, but that's theoretical. Al...
Well, some people DO wear steel-toed boots at the pistol range ...
