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RE: Project Surveyor at Croy Engineering

Marie-tuh is a brand of bread (Merita), originally baked by Hostess but purchased by Flowers after the Hostess bankruptcy.

5 years ago
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RE: OK, who put the kink in the state line?

@aliquot Yes. The GLO site has the map but not the notes.?ÿ

5 years ago
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RE: 20 miles?

Somewhere around 46. 78793, -69.52197 may work. The article was about US infrastructure, so it might be legal to use the Canadian border as a sideline...

5 years ago
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RE: OK, who put the kink in the state line?

@mightymoe I always learn from you. "Inholdings" was a new term for me, but lo and behold, there are inholdings in the Nantahala and Pisgah National ...

5 years ago
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RE: OK, who put the kink in the state line?

@mightymoe I thought that this was the original survey of the East Jog, but it says the boundary line has been retraced. These old maps are amazing i...

5 years ago
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RE: 20 miles?

@paden-cash Indeed it is!

5 years ago
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RE: 20 miles?

@holy-cow One of my favorites. The ferry crossing is less than 4 miles, but it takes 35 minutes in addition to time required for loading and unloadin...

5 years ago
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RE: OK, who put the kink in the state line?

@holy-cow How on earth did you find that little jog?

5 years ago
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RE: 20 miles?

@bstrand Yes, I was thinking about a single point at the center of a circle with a radius of more than 20 miles. ?ÿ

5 years ago
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RE: 20 miles?

I'm thinking maybe a state, county or federal numbered road. Dirt ok, but 4wd trails excluded. I have no idea what definition the author used.

5 years ago
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RE: It was all for this.

@james-fleming Luggable. Guaranteed to fit under an airplane seat.?ÿ

5 years ago
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RE: Splain to Me

@bstrand That's true. You could also say that both the heights and the bases are spot on, but that would make the sum of the two smaller hypotenuses ...

5 years ago
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RE: Splain to Me

Indeed. The differing slopes reveal the fact that the heights of the triangles can't be 2 and 3. And the slopes can't be different if the two pieces a...

5 years ago
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RE: Splain to Me

It actually didn't "go" anywhere. The presenter would have you believe that the smaller triangle's base = 5 units and its height = 2 units. But that's...

5 years ago
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RE: Long Line Geodetic Inverse by P.D. Thomas

From page 8 of the publication: The published inverse solutions have been more varied than the direct. The series expansion for thegeodesic length in...

5 years ago
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RE: Long Line Geodetic Inverse by P.D. Thomas

@john-nolton There are some clues on page 128 where there is a numerical example. It turns out that S2 is the value that closely matches NGS Inverse ...

5 years ago
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RE: Long Line Geodetic Inverse by P.D. Thomas

Actually, that's not even close to being right.

5 years ago
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RE: GIS

If it were my pad, and I measured it myself, I'd get 201.3 feet.

5 years ago
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RE: Long Line Geodetic Inverse by P.D. Thomas

The form says that Position 1 is always West of Position 2. So the form always calculates a West to East line. The second calculation does not retrace...

5 years ago
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