@john-putnam The trick is that the only practical way to prove all these things is to provide doubled angles and distances.....

@johnymal It's probably something at your end. It's working fine here.

I'll make a deal with my field staff. If they can prove, by clear and convincing evidence, that the instrument has been baselined within the last 30 d...

@jamesk You are treating the angles as decimal degrees. They are expressed as degrees and minutes. There is a big difference between "98 degrees 55...

It's been quite a while since I last saw a Leroy template, but I think that they had capitals on one side and lower case on the reverse.

For a curve with that large a radius there isn't likely to be a whole lot of difference between the arc length and the chord length. In this case the ...

Because of the text sizing issue which you detailed. It not just the letter height, its the spacing.

@bstrand Frequently so, but I think not for this example.

Whatever font you use make sure that it is a "Truetype" font. Simplex fonts such as used in your example plat adopt the pen weight (ie/lineweight) of...

I believe that it is important to a) routinely adjust control, and b) map topo -at least to the point of running F2f - as soon as possible after colle...

Back between '93 and '95 I worked in Lynden and Bellingham, Washington while living in Abbotsford, B.C. For part of this time I was working days in Ch...

@gary_g Seriously, those are fine for the surveyor conference. But not for meeting the Mayor. Or anybody outside of the profession.

@gary_g How about a bulbous red nose and size 25 shoes to go with that tie?

@bruce-small A variation on that theme that I have used is a wood hub, similarly marked and weighed down by the cone.

Besides today's common ways of setting up a tripod or rod/bipod there are various manners of plumbing a staub or a lath over the point with a plumb bo...