One of the first problems may be the disk formats. I've had trouble reading old 3.5 inch disks on modern machines. If you have something that can rea...

The missing piece of data is your date of death. You need more if you're going to die at 90 than if you're going to die at 80. The continually changin...

@rover83?ÿ I think that the NGS reference means that Inverse, etc will calculate correct azimuths and distances for WGS 84 coordinates when the selec...

@jitterboogie?ÿ I was thinking about the equipment being hit by traffic along with the surveyor. My son is a manufacturing plant manager and a stick...

Here's where black box things get iffy and clear communication is often hard to come by. Per the Topcon Magnet Field NAD 83 datum details, NAD 83_NO_...

On a lighter note, you could remind the boss that the equipment is at risk, too. His (proper pronoun?) response would say much about his priorities.

@dougie?ÿ When Winston Churchill was criticized for a dangling preposition, his response was: ƒ??This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I...

Chris Rock just learned that the hard way.?ÿ

This little book is a good start for mathematical geodesy. I have the 1987 edition which I bought used from one of these AbeBooks sites: Sphere Spher...

@jitterboogie?ÿ According to this, CA gas tax is 67 cents per gallon, the nation's highest. In NC, it's 36 cents which puts us at 14th highest. Of co...

I liked that story as a young'un, but I didn't know what gruff was and I still don't.

@bill93?ÿ It's really cool logic, but it's not sound. The problem is that when we rotate those triangles, their bases may overlap, meet, or have a ga...

This is an overlapping triangle problem. Teachers and good geometry students love to solve them and test makers who want to prove how smart they are l...