Mark Silver, post: 439335, member: 1087 wrote: I see this True GPS North often here.Surveyor (customer) insists that (yellow) box will deliver geodeti...

Dave Karoly, post: 439333, member: 94 wrote: In 1836 all the greatest minds met, they said they would like to have the most tangled, disorganized cada...

Holy Cow, post: 439344, member: 50 wrote: In the distant (internet-based) past there was a label applied here by one poster on another. Who was who i...

paden cash, post: 439343, member: 20 wrote: Oh Kent...quit trying to be friendly and suck up. Well, to paraphrase the Sacred Bovine's complaint, what ...

Holy Cow, post: 439277, member: 50 wrote: Is snootiness somehow required to pass the survey licensure examination? What ever happened to professional...

Gene Kooper, post: 439334, member: 9850 wrote: did you ever do any scholarship on diversity cases to understand that just because it is a SCOTUS decis...

Gene Kooper, post: 439318, member: 9850 wrote: I believe I have the unique distinction of being cited by the forum's congeniality official for "Intell...

Bill93, post: 439273, member: 87 wrote: The GLO notes for the parts of this PLSS state I've looked at report the variations to which they had adjusted...

paden cash, post: 439261, member: 20 wrote: Can't you even rag on your fellow Texas surveyors without dragging out-of-state surveyors into your bailiw...

Loyal, post: 439258, member: 228 wrote: Well that has to beat the crap out of the jackleg, dipsh*t, dufus & goofus, "magnetic" bearings, which (ba...

Kent McMillan, post: 439256, member: 3 wrote: Over the project extents East and West, the convergence varies between about -1?ø20'36" and -1?ø18'16". ...

Monte, post: 439133, member: 11913 wrote: Ah hell no! Point me to the books! I get flustered bad enough at the bad handwriting, I don't need a silly...

R.J. Schneider, post: 439165, member: 409 wrote: Wow! the photo on the second link zooms in pretty close. I had no idea, looking at the upper right br...

R.J. Schneider, post: 439157, member: 409 wrote: I don't know or remember whether it was a ten or twenty vara chain on display

Loyal, post: 439139, member: 228 wrote: Ahhh, ye ol' Cow Bell Batteries.I have "rebuilt" several of these babies for some of my unfortunate friends wh...

In Austin in 1885-1886, evidently Mr. Campell resided in Oak Hill, about 5 miles SW of Austin and maintained an office in the Travis County Courthouse...

BTW, for those interested in putting faces and biographical facts to the early Texas surveyors, here is a photo of the messianic figure of John Eaton ...

ARS Mine Surveyor, post: 439124, member: 12913 wrote: I don't have a word suggestion, but is there a chance that he is referring to slope chaining?I d...

I think that the problem is easier to understand if you book the angle in the traditional form: [PRE] F Lt F Rt Mean ReducedBS ...