We have always done it that way is a saying that is very much heard in the surveying community. If I had a nickel for every time I heard someone say ...

I have driven across Kansas. Not a lot of vertical relief for sure. Flat as a pancake.

1/X. I see your point for sure. Words do cause confusion at times for sure. I am one of the worst on that. With being dyslexic I use that 1/x button t...

The grid distance to ground distance is something recent in history. All NGS data sheets publish the combine factor which is for taking ground distanc...

Now don’t date yourself my friend. We all still used the same old recording forms I bet. Everything had its place and form either for triangulation ...

So true. LOL. I reckon a few of us actually lasted through a few name changes. DMA NIMA and now NGA. Some of my certificates I received over the year...

Thank you.

So true. Now some manufacturers quote the same 3” angle but is is done by different standards DIN or ISO. And that makes a difference as well. In how ...

Will do. See history is all amongst us all the time.

Well if you ever proofread my stuff that might send you over the top. LOL. You would have no hair and probably just throw in the towel and give up and...

Well it is tough. My geodetic side and the survey side are always in a battle. But the reading of old NGS publications and old Letters they published...

I would not hesitate to use a 5” gun. Most states regulations are still written in a way that a 20” theodolite or transit could achieve the angular re...

I can agree with that for scaling distances. Unfortunately I am not in a PLS state and here we and I don’t like it scale coordinates. So that changes ...

Have you seen my grammar. LOL. My wife who has had to review some papers for me would kill me if I told her I was writing a book. I do love history...

Scale factor or combined factor or project factor. Also what is your false northing and easting. I usually carry out to 8 or 9 places. On combined fa...

Thank you. Oh sometimes well many times I can’t sleep. So I just find some rabbit hole to keep my mind going. I like history and have almost read al...

That’s an easy excel formula. It’s an inverse. But some states I know North Carolina geodetic survey has an inverse calculator on one of the web brows...