Now, I'm no absolute defender of either NC statutes or procedures, but this one passes my personal muster. Note that in prior state plane systems, Lam...
Excellent work! Here are some comments, perhaps nit-picky in some cases. No significant criticism intended. In calculating an elevation factor, the ac...
I don't know much about surveying software workings but I do know a thing or two about coordinate systems. Using South as Positive x and West as Posit...
From Wikipedia concerning the opening intro to The Lone Ranger TV series: "Iverson Movie Ranch Much of the series was filmed on the former Iverson Mov...
Point out the significant digits in the city's result. Then claim that they're discriminating against the client because he's (insert best category he...
I never used those memory aids when I was a student and only learned about them when I started teaching at age 56. My colleagues had one to remember t...
That is a really well-designed problem. The figure is drawn on an xy plane with the hypotenuse originating at the origin. BStrand is spot on. Note tha...
I've been away for a while. I'm familiar with a Local Tangent Plane in terms of a plane coordinate system designed so that the projection plane is tan...
One like this, using LIDAR and problematic relief, just cries out for using XYZ coordinates. All distances calculated from these coordinates would be ...
Is the 7 miles like the odometer distance along the road or the straight line distance from beginning to end?
Ooops. My bad. I've been away too long. The combined factor converts between ground and grid, not ground and ellipsoid. ChatGPT is smarter than I am!!...
Here's the other side of the question. It seems that ChatGPT can get from A to B after a fashion, but going from B to A .... If two points on the eart...
One of the characteristics of AI is its ability to "learn" from its experiences. Perhaps ChatGPT and Copilot both learned from the earlier interaction...
I continued the conversation this morning. Just another example of never using the excuse "that's what the computer said." Shouldn't you divide the el...
AI is superb at database applications, so there may be a use in title searches, deed searches and such. I'm not enough of a visionary to see field or ...
