After a couple of inefficient attempts at tree location, I found it was easier to flag all of the desired trees before breaking out the instrument, an...
The "uy" is silent. Little-known fact.
Made another check. If you're specifically interested in British English, then it might be different.It's "levelling" in the 3rd edition of Geodesy (...
In American English: leveling.Universal agreement among the following sources:ACSM. 2005. Definitions of Surveying and Associated Terms.ASCE, ACSM, AS...
> ... when it doesn't work the magic he wants.The word "magic" has been used elsewhere to describe the incantation nature of the legal arguments us...
Maybe a helpful analogy:Suppose a potential client asked for a survey of his 0.25-acre lot, and explained that the sole reason for the survey was to t...
Unfamiliar FishesSarah Vowell analyzes the history of Hawaii's Americanization, "where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn."
Dowsing, with success better than random guessing, definitely qualifies for Randi's prize. It doesn't matter whether the dowser himself regards it as...
In controlled, double-blind tests, dowsing doesn't perform any better than random guessing.There are some relatively simple tests that can be done to ...
16 D&RDave,Are you agreeing with Paul that transits measure small angles less precisely than larger angles?- Doug
Hello, Did I Not Say With A Transit ?> I brought this up because I was considering the original source of why 15° was a weak angle. That is specifi...
For a traverse, there is nothing special about 15° or any other angle."Weak angles" near 0 and 180 were a concern in triangulation networks, however, ...
Jeff,You're not missing anything. I'm surprised at how much misinformation has been presented here.- Doug
KrisKris,I'm trying to get an idea of what your objection is to the traverse you described.If you had to survey that 300' x 4000' rectangular tract, a...
This topic deserves a more detailed discussion, because the myth is so prevalent. I don't have enough time this week, though.Maybe this weekend we co...
Confusing shadowsThe shadows are all wrong in that APOD photo, about 90 degrees off the direction they should be cast.I had to read through the captio...
LOL!!!
I hate when that happens.
Pythagoras was a 1000 years too late> If the hypotenuse of your right triangle is 2 and you know one of the other sides, then the answer to the oth...
