good questions. NAD83 is a datum, giving you vertical and horizontal coordinates that are ECEFbased essentially, (and I know I'm opening a huge gallo...

@bstrand you absolutely can scale points in C3D When were given a plat with a municipal or whatever coordinate system or LDP, we utilized the funct...

@mightymoe Earl is a great guy, and passionate about geodesy and doing it right.

@mightymoe yep. worked on some of the biggest ones in the world. truck tires that cost more than twice what most normal people make in a year.

Mines in Nevada have shifted water tables for the region. yeah, the impact is beyond the line of sight generally and hard to fathom.

@john-putnam that red wire? lol I think that's either the previous or the new irrigation electrical. I just take photos of the crap and to be f...

@bstrand you use hubs? good luck in the frozen with that. this is all constructed minus the landscaping now, but I've never staked any other way un...

@drakej6 wow. 2.296x10e-6 acres that's awesome!

focused on how they might impact or affect title like in Love Canal, these places are the necessary evil of the society we live in, and the impa...

@rover83 Again a great reason why this site ROCKS!

@mathteacher true. I'll admit my eagerness to despise the media when math is being discussed.... I hadn't really accounted for the fact that they'...

Interesting question for sure. Everything (well almost everything) in a refinery is structural by the nature of the facility. Did you get the work a...

@mathteacher I guess they got it right after all. damn.

Grading is not done. The clod is clearly displaced and replaced almost to where it came from. they pregraded the area, because they needed to do som...

@jerry-attrick yes, El is on the back of stake.

Welcome!

@frozennorth someone else's added information. not sure whose idea it was but I do know that site super is a retired surveyor so he won't let the i...