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Joined: June 15, 2013 9:58 am
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Topics: 158 / Replies: 2104
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RE: Measuring two angles of a triangle as a substitute for the third.

Offhand, it would seem that A depends on the sum, B + C, so it looks like the variance of A would be the variance of B + the variance of C and the sta...

11 years ago
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RE: Converting from Lat-Long (Clarke Spheroid) to SPC

I downloaded the NADCON program from the link at the bottom of the page here:The drop-down boxes on the input screen list USSD and a host of other cho...

11 years ago
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RE: Converting from Lat-Long (Clarke Spheroid) to SPC

Thanks for the instruction. The information is great and watching professionals attack and solve a problem is priceless. NADCON 4.2 can be downloaded ...

11 years ago
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RE: Converting from Lat-Long (Clarke Spheroid) to SPC

And here are two links that may be valuable until we get to the corner.

11 years ago
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RE: Converting from Lat-Long (Clarke Spheroid) to SPC

Help is just around the corner, about midway down in the first column.

11 years ago
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RE: Converting from Lat-Long (Clarke Spheroid) to SPC

Scott and Loyal are absolutely correct. NAD27 is not USSD. Here's a presentation on the history that Dave Doyle did: Look at page 31 to see how big t...

11 years ago
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RE: Converting from Lat-Long (Clarke Spheroid) to SPC

What you have from the NGS software are NAD27 State Plane coordinates. If that's what you want, then you're home. If you want to convert the old publi...

11 years ago
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RE: Imagining the size of a second of arc

Or you could say that 1 second = pi/648000 radians. Then use the radius of the earth as 3956.5 miles based on the GRS80 ellipsoid and get 101.3 feet.

11 years ago
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RE: Coordinates

That wouldn't be from the NC Bridge Inventory file, would it? Several years ago I wrote software to convert federal bridge inventory text files to kml...

11 years ago
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RE: Talk about button-pushers...

That helps. Apparently they verified the house number but not the street name. The demolished house had damage, but it had been declared structurally ...

11 years ago
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RE: Coordinates before State Plane

base9geodesy, post: 363286, member: 7189 wrote: The only way to get real WGS 84 values is to perform an autonomous position just with respect to the s...

11 years ago
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RE: US Survey vs. International Feet

base9geodesy, post: 363263, member: 7189 wrote: ... by publishing the change as a notice in the Federal Register. Does a West Virginia surveyor need...

11 years ago
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RE: US Survey vs. International Feet

Field Dog, post: 363241, member: 9186 wrote: Prior to receiving your email, we had talked with Mr. Trent and he assured us that we need not worry abou...

11 years ago
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RE: US Survey vs. International Feet

It's interesting how avoiding a potential problem in applied mathematics can create a different problem somewhere else. State plane coordinates are hu...

11 years ago
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RE: US Survey vs. International Feet

Which is 2 parts per million or about 1 foot in 95 miles. I messed up the calculation; thanks for correcting me.

11 years ago
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