My dad taught at a small high school in California for almost 35 years. He knew everyone, or they knew him. That was true for several neighboring coun...
I had to "dispatch" about a 300 pound black bear in my camp in 2016. I was one of four people in the whole campground, the other three were my late br...
@mightymoe One of the many reasons why my wife and I have elected to opt out of the vaccines. I have never had a flu shot because guessing is involve...
Ryan was quite young and it was very much a shock. He was a student in one of my one-day classes just a few weeks before he passed and that was the fi...
@bushaxe Totally understood. We have recovered NGVD29 marks in the valley floors of California and tied them into NAVD88 based projects (not as const...
@bushaxe Many people don't know that NGVD29 was named "The Sea Level Datum of 1929" until NGS renamed it in 1973, as it did not represent mean sea le...
I use this image in presentations that I give. The velocities shown (mm/year) were extracted from the NGS utility HTDP at specific control point locat...
@jitterboogie Here you go then. A California colleague and friend authored this. ?ÿ
@jitterboogie Likely 1991.35, which is the epoch date of our HPGN, known as HARN elsewhere. There are still areas of California where the HPGN values...
That is unfortunate because based on my experiences, NGS requires the use of a single piece rod to comply with the cited FGCS specifications: Please ...
I suggest contacting Dr. Bock at CRTN to help understand the root of your issue. If he can't address it, there are others (users of CRTN) who he can r...
As a State Geodetic Coordinator for the past 5 years I have attended almost every NGS webinar and presentation on the NSRS Modernization in addition t...
I got an email from an NGS employee to alert me to it. I emailed Michael this morning and he said the trophy is marked "Made in China" so it is clearl...
I am a combination of treasure hunter, legal scholar, researcher, evidence analyzer, oath taker, arbitrator, business person, explorer, mathematician,...
In about 1979 on my first job as a party chief, we shot something a little over 13,000 feet in the cool of the morning in the mountains with an HP3810...
27 in my case.
@jim-frame Surely done after I departed, likely under contract to get all of the SSJDD parcels digitally mapped. I am sure that parcel number is a "l...
@bstrand Except the chord distance is rounded, typically to the hundredth. The radius is typically an even number, exactly, say 400' and the Delta is...
Just wanted to make sure that their ban was permanent rather than just a temporary "time out"? That email certainly did the trick, I am sure.
