Reading the bits and pieces of information and suggestions from all the posts led me to confusion. As a result, I completed a fairly comprehensive ana...

Lamon Miller, post: 333241, member: 553 wrote: You guys sure know how to make a simple concept difficult. First, a drawing showing the blocks, lots an...

Loyal, post: 332589, member: 228 wrote: Point of clarification... Actually, when you Scale the Coordinates, you are NOT scaling from the projection OR...

Personally, I advocate only Method 2.The main reason is that, unless coordinates are actually on a "state plane," there should be no similarity betwee...

A simpler method, as a result of a good night's sleep, for formatting Cut-and-Fill in Excel is:---------The formula in the cell showing results needs ...

MathTeacherInteresting and thank you. I think it is a matter of semantics. In my mathematics courses, approximately 45 years ago, our instructor was a...

Not to beat a dead horse but, any rotation of two or more points will at minimum result in a translation. If the rotation point is one of the point th...

Before getting into any other discussions about the problem presented in the original post:There are two significant conditions affecting the desired ...

Before getting into any other discussions about the problem presented in the original post:There are two significant conditions affecting the desired ...

Dependent upon the Excel version you are using one or the other or both will accomplish your objective.=IF(A133>F133,"Cut "&TEXT(A133-F133,"0.0...

rfcThanks for providing additional explanation. I had no idea, because there was no information about that in the original post, that you were analyzi...

rfc, post: 328800, member: 8882 wrote: I didn't realize least squares could be used to find blunders (which, i thought it was obvious this is).I thoug...

A mathematical general least squares solution:.. assuming that the precision of coordinates 13 and 14 are the same and that 321 and 322 are the same...

Thanks for your reply.Camino development stopped as the web page accessed with the "link" you listed states. However, usage of the browser has not sto...

The OGUG web page appearance on a Mac using the Camino browser:Page rendering is slow. It gives the impression that it is overburdened with javascript...

PeterAppreciate your concern. You are not operating in a vacuum. The drawing, from my perspective, was irrelevant except for the word "plat." It was t...

I believe the best reply to your questions can be found in California's "Professional Land Surveyor's Act." Refer post above by by imaudigger for the ...

First and foremost, thank you all for responding to the post. The information presented in California's "Professionl Land Surveyor's Act" provided ans...

Excel: Decimal Feet to Feet - Inches & fractionAssume the foot decimal value is in cell A1 (positive or negative values allowed)The inches fractio...