The twist erasers that Mark mentioned have worked very well for me. I use a 0.9 lead, which is too thick for a lot of applications, but works very wel...

You can use DNR Garmin, free from Minnesota Dept. of Natural Resources, to convert spreadsheet data directly to kml. Here's the web site for the downl...

jlwahl, post: 369698, member: 68 wrote: BLM uses mean true bearing and Alaska usually assumes distances are 'sea-level'. - jlw That computes very we...

That West Coast stuff is all fake. Here's the real one:

There may be lessons to be learned from other professions. Generally, there is no experience requirement for people taking the BAR exam or the CPA exa...

The document at this link may shed some light on the topic. www.keypre.com/admin/includes/doc_view.php?ID=627

Ooops! The Virginia South numbers are in meters, not survey feet.

Wow! The Virginia South State Plane applied to points in New Jersey? Here's what that would look like on JU0467, a mark in southern New Jersey, with c...

As a math teacher, I wrote all lower case variable names in cursive, less chance of mistaking an a for a 9, for example. Always a problem for some stu...

Shawn said it well; Michael Dennis gives the distortion due to changes in elevation in terms of 30 meter (100 foot) increments on page 10 (15 pdf) her...

Holy Cow, post: 367553, member: 50 wrote: Maybe this is out of a high school trig book written by someone unfamiliar with surveying.Perhaps you're rig...

It's not hard to find material on using elevation and scale factors, but finding information on calculating either of them from scratch is not so easy...