Some days 70 seems like the new 50; other days like the new 90. . . .

Ditto Doug Jacobson on GPSmap 60CSx. We also recently got a Montana 650t, and are finding its touchscreen inconsistently responsive, but its accuracy ...

Could be that "observable" needs emphasis in this context. Systematic vs. random. Interesting that in his book, Buckner states the formula thus: Error...

We will treasure this post. Truly inspiring. Best wishes to you!

A sad surprise indeed. I'm grateful for the air of solid but not humorless professionalism in his posts. I was always glad to see them, and I'll alway...

Where's John Francis these days?I like that a lot.Cheers,Henry

Bill--The bio, as I say above, is a little out of date. I've put writing aside for a little while, for various reasons that seem sound enough to me. ...

A by-product of doing something that makes one a potential topic for reference works is that information goes out of date, but stubbornly persists. I...

Metes and BoundsThe land surveyor either sets or finds.You read this in the markings on his plats:at such-and-such a point a pipe is set,at older corn...

About thirty years ago I spent some time roughly mapping the original land grants in the area where I then lived, in western Loudoun County, Virginia....

I recommend Surveyors and Statesmen: Land Measuring in Colonial Virginia, by Sarah S. Hughes, published in 1979 by the Virginia Surveyors Foundation a...

Looks like a Muscovy duck,in which case, it doesn't quack.Cheers,

20 degrees for angle 1-2-8 is a typo, maybe? The sum in the next line seems to make it 10, which makes sense in other ways, it seems to me. But you g...