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This Month’s Program
Program E: Fieldwork contains the functions of Stakeout and Sideshot. Stakeout generates an angle/distance to a known coordinate position from an occupied point/backsight setup whereas Sideshot generates a coordinate position with an observed angle/distance. Please do not hesitate to send any comments, concerns, questions, or criticism to rls43185@gmail.com
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This month’s programs are rudimentary and about as dry as vulture pemmican baking on old Route 66. I’ll take this opportunity to memorialize an important influence on our craft. We owe a professional debt of gratitude Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), for his realization and development of a technique we rely upon in our work. The Compass Rule Adjustment (Part 7) featured in the April 2015 issue of The American Surveyor Magazine is the product of Mr. Bowditch’s mathematic contribution to society. Mr. Bowditch was an important figure in navigation mathematics in the late 18th century and through that work gave us the method sometimes known as "Compass Rule Adjustment". I was remiss to neither mention Bowditch nor associate his name as the honorable title of the method.
El Mapache Este Mes
The pole cat of the month club welcomes Daniel Pedro Leiva of Argentina. Daniel spotted these "descuidos" from the other side of the equator.
"STEP L117…the last parenthesis is missing…((AGR(K-L)-A))>U
And then…
STEP L153…is shown as L151 RTN"
¡Muchiso Gracias hermano medición!
Jason Foose is the County Surveyor of Mohave County Arizona. He originally hails from The Connecticut Western Reserve Township 3, Range XIV West of Ellicott’s Line Surveyed in 1785 but now resides in Township 21 North, Range 17 West of the Gila & Salt River Base Line and Meridian.
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