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boundary surveying combines archaeology and law. Brilliant. I'm having a vision of the future of surveying in academia. Mostly math, Archaeology, law,...
Look up in Black's Weasel Dictionary the phrase "droit droit" yes two of them. It's from Law French. "Droit Droit" is that perfect title where the occ...
never have used side shots in starnet ... Always M or DM ...
Finding something set in days of yore that's right where they said they set it.
I converted the XP machine that runs all the so-called legacy software into a VMware virtual machine.I converted the Win7 machine, and the Win8.1 mach...
swap its position with "Recent Posts" so I can continue to click on the last fuzzy thing in the row when I'm trying to read?
You get used to the knob placement. Leica robots are so darn heavy, it's hard to knock them out of position simply turning them. I am a klutz and what...
#1 thing to get is a current model HP-35 calculator.#2 would be get a decent compass, I use a Cammenega that is undeclinated, if I were starting over ...
Unfortunately, no. Leads to harder stuff, like Columbus and the tau criterion, and early mornings pondering the difference between condition equations...
Yes. As far as I know, pretty much as you describe. If it's been platted and the municipality accepted the dedications, the ownership stops at the ded...
ExpertGPS OSM, USGS Topo, or Aerial background tiles. Locations in north america by T-R-S is one of my favorites. Fly to the whole tax auction list.
It's a limited liability world, has been since 1857 or 1871 or 1910 or 1933 or so. Three generations of that stuff.Nobody cares about their boundaries...
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Cut to the chase. Trade surveying for land.
Use the distances and back azimuths from the known points to calculate a coordinate for each observation. Minimum observation, both faces and two dist...
To add in data that wasn't really observed at that setup would add a false redundancy.Adding in the HT and using the zenith would be ok by me if you k...
The zenith could still be useful if you are running a 3D network. Maybe with a better HT from your paper notes.Would be good to know if your data coll...
Ah the joy of starnet and .rw5 files. Use what the converter gives you and free the measurement you don't want to use, or put in an obvious dummy valu...