I have not seen this (I'm using Carlson Surveyor+ with SurvCE 4), but it sounds like you discovered a booger. What version of SurvCE are you running?

Hate to hear that. Always appreciated his comments. Rest in Peace.

Apparently, it's only lately that an ignorant age wants to redefine distortion to mean SF doesn't equal 1.000000, which is patently absurd. - KentEver...

Distortion IS"That is exactly what both my link and the NGS Manual mean". Just not what either actually says. Both discuss scale distortion everywhere...

Distortion ISKent,care to explain to those of us in the ignorant age who don't understand geodesy or projections, why there is an apparent contradicti...

You and Loyal would get along famously. You mentioned Wang computers last week. He started using LDP's on a Wang. He taught the nuts and bolts of LDP ...

Ah. Ok, Teach. I see your point to a point. The elevation factor isn't a map distortion. Technically it is applied before any projection math takes pl...

> The changes that LDP folks made are to use the combined factor instead of the scale factor and calculate parts per million instead of parts per h...

Then the statement is inadequate, as the rate of change is zero along any given latitude, not just the standard parallels of the given two parallel La...

from your own link:Conceptual model of a Lambert Conformal Conic map projection (left) and the resulting map (right). The two thick red lines marking ...

> Actually, the word "distortion" when applied to a map projection refers to the non-uniformity of scale across the area projected onto the develop...

it is a distortion. it's also a natural component for any projection. LDP's have distortion as well. by definition, the distortions of an LDP are "low...

Amen.

+1Localizing is a cool tool, but not when you already know the geodetic relationship of a set of coordinates (ie state plane).When you localized, what...