DaveMy dad's degree was in Forestry and he ended up surveying, so go figure.

If the world ends suddenly in Australia, hopefully RADU will let us know early so we can start drinking heavily.;-)

It also says he has "prospective". Should be "perspective". Just trying to help.

Apparently I am not making myself clear at all. Does it sound like I would fudge a measurement by a foot to agree with a record call if I'm confident...

Office motto>> Grant BradyDRINK COFFEE - Do Stupid Things Faster With More Energy.

OK, I agree that it's an engineer fail in that he had the mistaken idea that the GIS cartoon has any value whatsoever. In the areas I work in, we hav...

I'm sure there are some very fine and useful GIS systems in place throughout the world. I've just never seen one in the areas I work in. In this cas...

It's not that measurements aren't important. They're a big part of what we do. To me, the issue is one of statistical analysis and significant figur...

I felt a lot younger last month. I just went to the doctor Friday and they think I have a stomach ulcer and last weekend I fell through a rotten boar...

Never draft more in the morning than you can erase in the afternoon.Why do it right the first time, you're going to have to do it over again anyway.

I've never used one of those description writing programs. How many courses does a description have to have before it is a real time-saver? Or is it...

How can you even call it "Measured"?Not only is it unlikely to match record perfectly, it never will match record perfectly. If a line between two mo...

it seems that there are two kinds of surveyors"Fudge" is such a negative term.;-) Is it "fudging" to adjust a traverse into a closed figure or adjust ...

In Florida...The question I have is whether there is a threshold that needs to be crossed to state that a measurement "varies" from record data. I th...

If you saw some of the maps that have been recorded in Sacramento County, maybe you would reconsider. Much of the County is made up of blocks that ar...

The same could be said of a traverse that has been adjusted by least squares or compass rule or whatever. You could not truthfully state that the res...