Northing & Easting

Making sure things are where they really are...

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Right Under My Nose The Whole Time

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As many of you know, I've been scratching around for some time trying to dig up the origins of the Military Grid Reference System (MGRS)...
Sunday, January 23, 2011

Inter-American Geodetic Survey

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NOTE: This is an older version of my posting on the IAGS. All the material for this blog, to include an updated version of this post, is now...
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Happy Birthday Dad!

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  Guess who's having a birthday! The original leatherhead! Eighty two years old and still going strong! There are very, very few ...
Monday, January 17, 2011

Grab A Real Strong Cup of Coffee And Watch This

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One of the hundreds and hundreds of instructional films created by the Army that did more to cure insomnia among the troops than anything el...
Friday, December 31, 2010

A Man for All Seasons

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December 31st is the birthday of one of the greatest Americans of the 20th Century. George C. Marshall was born in 1880 in Uniontown, Pen...

Farewell Kodachrome

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The last roll of Kodachrome color slide film was processed yesterday.  Kodak abandoned (yes, abandoned) the iconic film format in 2009, and ...
Monday, December 27, 2010

Which Way North? (Part II) - The Pocket Transit

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In Which Way North? (Part I) we discussed the history of the magnetic compass and talked a bit about magnetic declination.  Now let's s...
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Old and grumpy but tolerant. To a point. I grew up in the 60's glued to the TV watching our space launches and developing a lifetime fascination with technology and exploration. Fifty years later I'm still a tech junkie but if you ask my wife the focus now is less on tech and more on junk!
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