All the best with this, Wendell!

@glenn-borkenhagen I left a PM in case you'd like to chat on the phone.

@base9geodesy I get it too and shook my head when I read that article this morning. Do you think Dracula is concerned about his need for "native soi...

@holy-cow Borrowing one of Loyal's favorite phrases....it depends. After conducting the basic research, I begin by preparing drawings of each minera...

@holy-cow HeHe. Being a septuagenarian, I'm not so frisky these days. My work day has been reduced to 3-4 hours, which is usually followed by a day of...

I'm sorry, but I have no idea of what you are asking. See also my post to HC above. In my professional opinion the stone was originally established in...

@holy-cow You are incorrect in saying the stone may have moved. The survey was started on November 20, 1891 and completed on January 19, 1892! The sto...

@bruce-small I'm not sure I'd call that particular spot a "meadow." The stone is on the east side of Mt. Bross and the NAVD88 elevation of the top of ...

When I started as a chainman on a Nebraska Dept. of Roads survey crew, our field equipment consisted of a K&E 30" Paragon transit, a 100-foot cut ...

The old version is back online. I downloaded a plat.

The solar ephemeris by Elgin, Senne and Knowles (2001 Sokkia edition) includes errors for solar observations in Table 1. It clearly shows that local n...

@bstrand Some don't understand the nuance between DSM, DEM and DTM, but that's not too different than the "nuance" between Astronomic North, True Nort...

Edit to previous post: It was a later version than Map 2004.

Thanks John. I tried that decades ago and didn't get good results, but that was on a Windows XP machine with Map 2004. I'll check it out and see how...

I included my mailing address and shipping preference in a private message. Thanks

If the Leica 500 is still available, I am interested. I have a differing opinion than Bruce on the 500. They are still good receivers for static work....