I always take the position that I'm helping everyone in the neighborhood when I do a boundary. At least it makes me feel better. The last contenti...

The charts to adjust temp and pressure only showed elevations for our old distance meters. The newer instruments sense the values; a nice feature. Che...

A trailer. I wouldn't do that. If you do, use at least a 1 ton truck.

I see your issue, if you have calculated points they obviously don't have LL attached to them yet. I would simply put them in a drawing with the desi...

If you have RTK information then project to state plane using your L, L. Forget trying to rotate and translate the assumed XY to State Plane, simply u...

No interest in that, never shut down or altered anything for COVID. I suppose staking boundary lines is working remotely, remotely from town.

A 200x200' lot is created in 1880. Jones sells the east 100' to Smith in 1884. Smith is now senior, Jones keeps whatever remains when the east 100 fee...

You've got an engineard running loose in the wild. That engineard needs to be corralled. Clearly a beaver type obsessed with numbers. Also called a...

@ashton For the sun it's basically 24 hours vs 360 degrees of arc. So divide 360/24=15, obviously that's a more or less calculation, depends on time...

I always used two methods, solar observation or occupying existing government control monuments. Frankly for day to day "true north" solar observatio...

The two words monument and corner can be synonyms. However, when the physical representation of the corner is moved, then it no longer occupies the co...

I've always given Hank a pass on the Guam quote. Sometimes it's difficult for people to activate their sarcasm (or exaggeration) detector. Same wit...

The first three rules of civil engineering: Rule #1 is: Where does the water go? Rule #2 is: Where does the water go? Rule #3 is: Where does the wa...

glorecords.blm.gov That site will allow you to download the patents and find out if the Feds reserved minerals. If they did then there are no privat...

@richard-germiller Try technobold font, it make the marks straight, some others do also. I might start using it.