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Fundamentals of Surveying: Calculating Traverses is Easier Using the Azimuth Trick

Calculating the traverse that represents a parcel can benefit significantly from something that is not properly taught: The use of azimuths. What is an azimuth? It is a horizontal angle of a line, ...
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Fundamentals of Surveying: Calculating the Direction of a Line using Azimuths

Representing the direction of a line with bearings is a long-standing tradition that continues today on plats, legal descriptions, site plans, and other documents. Calculating the direction of a line ...
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Formulae, tables, and example for the geodetic computation of latitudes, longitudes, and azimuths of trigonometrical points / as used in the United States Coast Survey

Appendix to the Annual report for 1860.
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Azimuth Tables for the Higher Declinations (limits of declination 24° to 30°, both inclusive) between the parallels of latitude 0° and 60°, with Examples in the use of the ...

A LEADING feature of present-day methods of navigation is the use of tables. There is scarcely any method in use in navigation for which one, and probably many, tables, of more or less practical ...
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On Compass Adjustment in Iron ships 1

II. AN important objection was made to me some years ago by Capt. Evans against the use of quadrantal correctors in the Navy, that they would prevent the taking of bearings by the prismatic azimuth ...