@mark-mayer?ÿ Not quite 20 years -- 13 years in fact.

I agree with all you say about the complexity/variability of solving such problems. But why should a high school math teacher be better than a surveyo...

I did it using the Map Traverse module of Copan, free software (see underhill.ca/software/copan-windows).Because interior angles, not, bearings, are g...

Don't discriminate based upon what you perceive as over-qualification.If they can perform the work and accept the pay offered...How many "kids" (the o...

Could you show the offending portion of the map here? Easier to see than parse your description.Also, what has this got to do with GIS, exactly? Is it...

Closure report = map check?Help me understand. Is this "closure report" the same as what i think of as "map check" -- specifically the check that, in ...

> A local town has a regulation for all subdivisions, that a surveyor provide a closure report showing the "adjustment of all points and boundaries...

Should have been Northwest by North.

I believe BLOCK CAPS and underlines are greatly over-used. They're a throwback to the days when, using typewriters or stencils, there was little choic...

Under the neat line:Under the neat line:

Multi-platform COGO> I have used and enjoyed versions of the Copan CoGo for Windows Mobile and Windows Desktop over the years.> The Android vers...

Thanks for posting those equations and for making and posting the lovely graph!I'm not sure if you're right or not about which type of radius of curva...

Thanks, guys, for all the explanations. In short, i was misunderstanding what was meant by "localization". I thought it meant position estimation via ...

Elevation factor is a vital component of combined scale factor, which applies to horizontal (not vertical) distances. Elevation factor is affected by,...

Hp 42 calc> I have a HP42 that I thought was the best calculator HP ever made, an HP41 on steroids. The HP42 was very similar to the HP41 but ran m...

> Distance between 89 N and 90 N = 366,448.96 USft Pole> Distance between 00 N and 01 N = 362,776.14 USft EquatorCertain...

I'm not sure if this quote about the Earth is an error, but it is surely nondescript or vague:> ...like a tomato, round in the center and flat at b...

length of semi-axis and radius of curvatureI wonder if the confusion over the differences in arc lengths of a short difference of latitudehas anything...

Some rules-of-thumb:The more formal the document, the fewer the abbreviations.For sanity and efficiency, use abbreviations, especially standard ones.I...