@steinhoff Right?! Splitting a six-pack of Bartles & Jaymes wine cooler malt beverage with two buddies was far-out, man!
@holy-cow At my school, we called that Calculus. Each weekend was a "lab" to study the "rates of change" for various sized containers of "liquids".
@holy-cow Geodesy would attract people ...Like gravity?
Plotting instruments "manually" has much greater significance to the overall objective than just getting things into cad. This "plotting" procedure c...
SC seems to be popular with the electrical engineer types. What's the attraction? (Please don't say magnetism...)
The new line in a BLA can be considered an original survey where it's unattached to the senior lines. Much like a subdivision all the interior corners...
There are permitting issues that force 27 to continue. I'm from the government, and I'm here to help...
They're the epitome of button-pushers. That doesn't seem to be hindering their progress?!
GIS requirements will probably be the driving force behind that since surveyors aren't. Who wants to guess why this is likely the case? What...
Reminiscing about (or trying to use) NAD27 is like watching vcr tapes on a 480p tube television. The resolution isn't there, and it's rather pointless...
@mathteacher Fortunately, NGS datasheets don't show XYZ coordinates other than in meters. They should add: furlongs, barleycorns, Smoots, & cubi...
Apparently a few of the comments in this thread have been censored, because they are missing.
@mightymoe So I'm confused... If we're talking about SPC in Montana, the average geoid height (4 corners + 1 in the middle) is -13.72m (~ -45 feet)...
@dmyhill That may be true for many vendors and their products, but I think Trimble does (used to do?) a decent job with their manuals. More importan...
If you use the system as it was intended to be used, you'll have no distortion problems. And therein lies the problem. If people: read the manual...
Look for "Survey" near the top left of the page here: Current MDT Survey Manual Revision Date: May, 2005: Chapter 2 clearly outlines the vari...
Read the ALTA Standards, ask your client, or gain some more experience. Standard: 5 (Fieldwork) D (Buildings) Optional Table A: 7 & 20