The word spheroid comes from the UK. When the UK say spheroid they mean ellipsoid of revolution. The math as you know, clearly is an ellipsoid . The ...
Nice post M.T. I am not a fan of LDP so I have not gone over this very good. I did notice 2 things; Under your first post "A shortcut to an LDP...
Shawn Billings, I would take exception to your statement above about not seeing the difference between the international foot and the US Survey foot ...
In my post above its not the electronic DKM2 ITS the Kern E2 ?ÿ JOHN NOLTON
Brad Ott; Nice link. Gon's are easy to work with (read on an optical inst.) They are NOT an SI unit of angular measurement, but nothing that I know of...
That's OK Larry. I have done the same (misread) more than one post. Hope all is well with you. JOHN NOLTON
LARRY ?ÿSCOTT, ?ÿI would think you should read my post again. NO place do I say that a base line should be xxx.000?ÿ PERIOD. ?ÿ JOHN NOLTON ?ÿ
Dave This is a very interesting story and it shows that a little communication on the new surveyors ?ÿpart would save a lot of trouble. It also shows ...
GeeOddMike, Thanks for posting NGA information. ?ÿ JOHN NOLTON
For those that want to look at the above Special Publication by Howard S. Rappleye you can go to the NGS library (library.noaa.gov) and you will find ...
One correction for my post above. The last Tellurometer I used in the military was the MRA 301 not MRA3. Another note about "GeeOddMike" post ?ÿjust a...
Geodimeter Model 2 used by some large surveying firms in the 1950's, cost around $25,000. In around 1958 the Model 4 Geodimeter was used by private su...
linebender: Yes this is possible. It tell you that a "?ÿLASER TRACKER OR SIMILAR EQUIPMENT" must be used. Do an internet search on "Leica AT402?ÿ" som...
There are a lot of papers on the subject (contrary to what Mark Mayer says in his post above). Just what do you call HIGH RISE would be the question. ...
Bill93?ÿ I suspect that someone entered the information about "SUITABLE FOR SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS" after the fact.?ÿ?ÿ?ÿ?ÿ?ÿ ?ÿSo when did you start ...
The BM PID # is TN0994 (USGS Quad?ÿ YAAK 1963) It needs to be located and a new description done on it (if it can be found). The road intersection is ...
Scotland you reference a book by Hilbert & Cohn-Vossen but did not give the title "Geometry and the Imagination" It is interesting to note that th...
A small correction for my post above. Inside the square brackets in my post " pi " the first letter "p" needs to be a Capital letter P.?ÿ It should re...
GeeOddMike, Mathematica gives you any precision you want. Here is pi to 50 places (in less than 1ms) pi = 3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 ...
