I grew up in PLSSia with local directions being automatic, no need to think about it. Same is true now in the small city I now live in. But somehow th...

>"I think I understand that HARN is “very close” to SPC, so I thought I’d shoot it in SPC and convert in post." HARN is an old datum. SPC is a proj...

One of my great aunts was in DAR and interested in history. She traced our Brown (!) and Sheldon family lines back to the New England colonies. This w...

Between my Samsung phone and Windows computer I need to sign in maybe once a week.

I've seen a picture of what was claimed to be the first computer bug. A moth got caught in electrical contacts and prevented the early computing machi...

I once recovered a triangulation station out in a field by some fairly long measurements from reference marks. When I looked at my pictures later I re...

At the dedication.ceremony there was a Mr. Jones who worked on the crews back when they were still moving towers around for triangulation. I think tha...

The key feature of the Bilby tower was that it was two concentric tripods, with the instrument mounted on the inner one while the crew moved around on...

Nitpicks: They said "past 12 generations" but summed 11. You are the 12th.Also when going back that far, the average time per generation was probably ...

Shooting from the hip without proper study of your pictures. Four screws near the eyepiece end could be holding the frame of the reticle (cross hair...

Again demonstrating what is widely reported, that the AI does not understand arithmetic concepts like closer, later, etc. My classic example is when I...

>Slope equal rise over run. Except for earth grading. That always seems strange. Why shouldn't a graph, roof, and embankment use the same way of ex...

Incredibly evil people. And stupid, too, to think they would get away with it. Lots of evidence, motive, means, and opportunity.

I don't know if there are still any PE licensees active who this applied to, but there were PEs who were grandfathered in as allowed to do boundary su...

I'd probably pay for shipping the best Topcon of the bunch if it is likely to work. What is included?