Holy Cow, post: 428146, member: 50 wrote: 64 words a simple phrase do not make.Alrighty then, how about "That dog don't hunt". I have a few boiler pla...

BSA, post: 428109, member: 1122 wrote: I need a simple phrase to discount the idea of using a distant object to "control" boundary location."Them CORS...

MightyMoe, post: 428120, member: 700 wrote: You have your terms incorrect, the formula I gave you will calculate a grid distance from the surface dist...

MightyMoe, post: 428094, member: 700 wrote: Grid distance= Surface Distance/DAFI'll bite, what's a DAF? The larger point would be that on a project wh...

Kent McMillan, post: 428077, member: 3 wrote: Not yet, but something was bound to replace all those adds for Italian sports cars.And replace the ads, ...

MightyMoe, post: 428018, member: 700 wrote: I will never again do a plat in real State Coordinate distances, it's universally hated.By whom? Surely n...

Dave Karoly, post: 428044, member: 94 wrote: Is your Facebook feed now full of advertisements for surveyor's hoop skirt wire?Not yet, but something wa...

flyin solo, post: 428048, member: 8089 wrote: 160 gunter links?Yes, 38 varas is nominally 1.60 chains, but it's pretty unlikely that the 1887 surveyor...

I'd use the State Plane Coordinate System, report grid distances and tabulate the Combined Scale Factors at corners along the line. That way, you can...

So, in light of what the field book shows, what is one plausible interpretation of the fact that a series of six section corners along a line run in 1...

MathTeacher, post: 427972, member: 7674 wrote: One question not addressed was the difference between a sample and the population. If a distance is mea...

The Google has provided multiple accounts of tapes made out of hoop skirt wire being in use by surveyors in the period around 1887, so I'm going to sa...

Just for color, here's a note entered in the field book that gives some idea of the comforts of surveying on the prairie:Friday Eve, February 26th, 18...

R.J. Schneider, post: 427935, member: 409 wrote: I'm not sure how that matches his even number stations on the left margin.The 200 vara stations are m...

R.J. Schneider, post: 427925, member: 409 wrote: Might just be a record of his work and a quick reference as he runs the line back. I'm just guessing ...

R.J. Schneider, post: 427922, member: 409 wrote: Okay he reaches the corner of a survey to connect to and he's fifty varas, chains, or feet out; and t...

But here is some of the arithmetic that appears on the book's endpaper: Those addition problems include:[PRE]874 1102 494 228 23 27 ...

Here's a typical page from that 1887 field book as an example. Note that the fieldbook reads from bottom to top:

flyin solo, post: 427910, member: 8089 wrote: So a 1/50th mile chain?Yes, that's what the table describes. Next question is exactly what sort of a thi...

flyin solo, post: 427908, member: 8089 wrote: He wanted a quick reference for measuring in varas using a 100' chain?Except 36 varas = 100 ft. 38 var...