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Going Back?I like some of the technology we have today. However, I'd like to go back to the days when I made more money for myself instead of for Trim...
Ground v GridModified State Plane Coordinates - recently by LoyalSurveyor 1: I always use gridSurveyor 2: I always use groundSurveyor 3: What's the di...
What constitutes a SURVEY- no black-and-white NUTSIt has to be interpred as to just what a survey is and in particular what a Record of Survey is. The...
S'more: lets up the ante!Why do I get the impression two-dimensional minds are arguing about two-dimensional projections of a three-dimensional event?
A matter of perspectiveTell me the point of perspective and then I can tell you if the line is straight or curved. An east-west line which maintains c...
CMM, written for BLM by Ray Hintz at the University of Maine, includes Least Squares Adjustment. To my knowledge, because the taxpayers paid for it, t...
Tradition, Tradition - so says Tevye (remember Fiddler on the Roof?)Perhaps we might back up a little to examine the situation. Cartesian coordinates,...
How others may cope with Tectonic Motion and other issuesGood ideas have been presented. However, there is one issue which has not been addressed. It ...
2009 BLM Manual - tail wagging the dogBLM ManualsWhy are they not free? By use of the word "free" I am not ignoring it is the taxpayers who pay for it...
ControlIn older days, the instruments did what surveyors told them to do. If they wanted angles right, that's how the instrument was operated, etc.Tod...
According to the rules, the correct result is 1000, not 1100, because 1039 rounds down. When a zero is significant, I was taught in junior high school...
From what I've observed, most mistakes, regarding plus (+) and minus (-) as well as North-South and East-West, are made when the sign or label follows...
Directional Entry: sexagesimal valuesMany years ago, I wrote routines in Versacad cpl for surveying and highway design. Users of the program were most...