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I here ya Mighty... I just did a quick tabulation of my CURRENT projects (ones that I will be working on this coming week) #1. PLSS and Mineral Survey...
Kent, Here are the NAD83 Shackelford Projection constants in case you lost them: ShackelfordLambert Conformal ConicGRS-80NAD83Longitude of Origin 100å...
Kent McMillan, post: 375683, member: 3 wrote: Yes, I'm working on a project a couple of miles in extent right now where the Combined Scale Factor vari...
Nate The Surveyor, post: 375590, member: 291 wrote: Kent, that is rude, and UN-professional. Nate Careful Nate , he's... [MEDIA=youtube]Nx2c4HrWJzk[...
They are ALL TOO HIGH (and all too low also), it depends on your point of view... :-SLoyal
Kent McMillan, post: 375577, member: 3 wrote: I'm thinking more about the quickie-dickie survey work that I follow in the normal course of business. T...
Kent McMillan, post: 375570, member: 3 wrote: The point is that you have to really work hard to mess up a distance and angle measurement with a good t...
Kent McMillan, post: 375568, member: 3 wrote: The other consideration is whether the survey is to meet any particular accuracy specification or not. I...
Probably my 30/06! It will handle anything on Earth, although there are better tools for Lions, Tigers, Bears, Cottontails, and it kinda sucks for phe...
Nate The Surveyor, post: 374868, member: 291 wrote: I think many LDP's are strictly scaled spc, to make a local grid, that are very close to ground. ...
DWoolley, post: 374818, member: 6749 wrote: MKennedy: Specifically, what it meant by "may not correspond well with the terrain surface in a location (...
WOW, a cornbinder! We had those at the USFS (GSA vehicles) back in the day too. Loyal
Look for; US Coast & Geodetic Survey Special Publication No. 14"Determination of Time, Longitude, Latitude, and Azimuth"By William Bowie I have th...
Your statement is still false, no matter how you want to weasel around it. NAD83 coordinates NEVER enter into the CORS positions used by OPUS. You sho...
Kent McMillan, post: 374594, member: 3 wrote: The new OPUS solutions from the 2005 observations, though, regressed the current NAD83 (2011) Epoch 2010...
astrodanco, post: 374471, member: 7558 wrote: Why would you want PA11 unless you're in Hawaii? Even in coastal California where we're technically on t...