@norman-oklahoma   That's funny because I was just complaining on Twitter to an acquaintance who edits a semi-academic journal that the latest ...

I took one of the last pre-computer exams; definitely helped to know sanitary sewer design and septic area/well separation requirements. ?ÿ My exam ...

Best Units... ?ÿ Can't go wrong with US Survey Feet; traditional, time tested, and made in the good old U.S. of A.?ÿ ?ÿ?ÿ

There is a chapter in Knudƒ??s book that goes over the areas where Pennsylvania case law differs from the consensus of case law across US. ?ÿWhen I to...

@stlsurveyor I have a former co-worker whose enrolled in the Professional Science Masters (PSM) in Engineering and Business at UMaine.  It looks...

I use both all caps and upper/lower; it depends on what I'm trying to do with the visual hierarchy of map elements.?ÿ ?ÿ Everyone that drafts for me ...

An interesting resource

We're spoiled in Maryland.?ÿ This is a colonial patent from 1675 that I just pulled up in my office, for free, in 45 seconds. ?ÿ

@daniel-ralph   Is that Bothell Way?  My folk lived about ten miles from there when I was in college.  

@daniel-ralph   I believe the OP was talking about the low flow orifice either the weir or riser for an old-school (at least around these parts...

@holy-cow I can work with those...engineering is like surveying in the PLSS (according to the occasional ornery Texan), all you need is the right "co...

Interesting approach, around here we just try and build them to match the plan design in the first place ?????ÿ ?ÿ

The real reason they even make round outlets is so that engineers and surveyors can giggle when they say "orifice equation"?ÿ

@base9geodesy Heck, I think it would take a huuuge increase just to make up for the last few years cuts at NOAA

Drove 75 MPH around the DC beltway at 7:30 yesterday morning.?ÿ Felt like The Omega Man...just had to get safely back before dark ?ÿ

@norman-oklahoma To be even more pedantic; I would argue that you don't "change the measured values" (the angles and distances between the points) wi...

***Pedant Alert*** Least Squares isn't an "adjustment"; it's a method to develop an estimate of the true value of a quantity based on a consideration...

@paden-cash I used to work with a PE from New Hampshire who interned at a hometown engineering/survey firm when she was in college at Bucknell. ...