Reply to self...Looking at this source, which looks more like our original GMM documenation: br>It looks like 1 ro 2 digit offsets were more used on i...
That document is not the definitive document on the system.I can try to track down other sources, but as my memory serves me 'offset corners' which ab...
The old and much maligned BLM CMM back in the early DOS era say 1990-93 would handle over 2000 points, 900 control points 2200 angles and distances an...
I could be shooting from the hip on this, but tribes can hire private surveyors to survey all kinds of things WITHIN their jurisdictions and even use ...
CMM can be operated to use elevations in all of it's proportioning programs. Variation of elevation is an issue which has to be dealt with even when ...
As to the display, early 33s' had a problem (invisible decimal point) but that has been fixed for years so unless you were buying a used one, not a pr...
Some offices still use it, or all offices use it in varying degrees.It is designed to run on DOS platforms and a 16x40 screen. The most common platfor...
Actually there really are some indications that BLM might get permission soon from the Solicitor to release a digital 'free' version of the Manual.Als...
Makes me wonder if it is one of those "divide by a combined scale factor" kind of thing?
adamIf this topic is nothing else, it is Keith beating the same horse over and over and over. That is his way of finding meaning in his life I guess.W...
KrisBut the subdivision of section lines are defined by the act of 1805 to be straight. One of those little exceptions to the rule. Now Mr. Dahl has d...
Straight linesKeith would say he could pull a mile of barbed wire to subdivide the section. I guess you might be able to do that with a few teams of h...
HP-85/6/7 disk formats are completely different than that for PC's and DOS. There are some PD utilities available which MAY allow you to use a PC to ...
My short answer is that it is actually pretty common. I guess you would have to define common though. It's the kind of thing that probably has thousan...
In Flanders Fields By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918) Canadian Army In Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row...
BLM and Manual would mark a POL as a Witness Point or WP, definitely NOT angle point.- jlw
If you are mostly wanting to learn then Ghilani's program is probably about the easiest to get install and learn. It is for educational purposes only...
There seemed to be a little bit of semantics problem in this thread from the top.Vertical control: means to me "elevation" and 'differences in elevati...
What I have noticed here and on the earlier RPLS forums as well as other venues, is that a lot of the posters will only do so on company time and prob...