Kevin Nehring, PLS (aka Calif. Benchmark Hunter)

Professional Land Surveyor in Fresno Co., Ca | Pres. San Joaquin Valley Chapter of Calif. Land Surveyors Assoc., 2007-2014 | Benchmark Hunter

[Kevin Nehring, PLS (aka Calif. Benchmark Hunter) @CaPLS8200]

I can't say that I've ever seen this projection.

[owen cyclops @owenbroadcast]

never recovered from seeing this worldmap a chinese guy named hao xiaoguang made in like 2002:

[Kevin Nehring, PLS (aka Calif. Benchmark Hunter) @CaPLS8200]

I'm laughing because it only takes me a few weeks to forget how to update a map. 🤣🤣🤣

[MapQuest @MapQuest]

fyi MapQuest is NOT renaming the Gulf of Mexico — not because of politics but because we haven’t updated our maps in like 15 years and don’t remember how to do it

[Ordnance Survey @OrdnanceSurvey]

Ever wondered what the inside of a trig pillar looks like? 💡

Like an iceberg, there is more below the surface than above it. This is how trig points were designed during the retriangulation of Britain. 👇 #TrigWeek

[Kevin Nehring, PLS (aka Calif. Benchmark Hunter) @CaPLS8200]

Using a K&E #theodolite to look at the #eclipse. #SurveyTricks #eclipse2024

[Kevin Nehring, PLS (aka Calif. Benchmark Hunter) @CaPLS8200]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[Kevin Nehring, PLS (aka Calif. Benchmark Hunter) @CaPLS8200]

@923af362cfc5490 It can be DDMMSS (or DMS), DD MM.MMM, or DD.DDD. Then there's UTM, and many other systems. Each has it's advantages. Some are compromises. As long as everyone involved understands the system being used, they're all good.

[Kevin Nehring, PLS (aka Calif. Benchmark Hunter) @CaPLS8200]

Marriage is about compromise. Let's discuss DD MM.MMM....

[Joe Morrison @mouthofmorrison]

Do I look like a 17th century pirate to you, Travis? Do I look like I know how to use a damned sextant? Look at me. Look at me. We use decimal degrees in this household. If you send me coordinates in DMS notation again, I’m keelhauling your ass, ok? Are you even listening to me?

[Kevin Nehring, PLS (aka Calif. Benchmark Hunter) @CaPLS8200]

@forecaster25 @pokateo_maps This is both an amazing and terrifying use of GIS.

[Kevin Nehring, PLS (aka Calif. Benchmark Hunter) @CaPLS8200]

@pokateo_maps ...or when the customer doubts you because their Google GIS research tells them otherwise.

[Kevin Nehring, PLS (aka Calif. Benchmark Hunter) @CaPLS8200]

I've seen worse, but not as funny.

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

When the namers in Porters Lake, Nova Scotia ran out of ideas

[Kevin Nehring, PLS (aka Calif. Benchmark Hunter) @CaPLS8200]

Holding one's ground.... literally.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

A family in Australia has remained defiant in selling their nearly 5-acre property in the last few years as developers have been forced to build around them. Most recently, they declined a whopping $50 million offer for their home. Slap bang in the middle of a new-build development in The Ponds area near the city of Quakers Hill, the Zammits have indicated they cannot put a price on their beloved home.

It’s a stark contrast to the adjacent rows of newly constructed houses that surround their longtime property. Their neighbors have praised their resilience as they enjoy the cul-de-sacs that this in-the-middle property creates by staying put, rather than having a typical through street.

“The fact that most people sold out years and years ago, these guys have held on. All credit to them,” Taylor Bredin, an agent with Ray White Quakers Hill, told the outlet.

Bredin estimated that the land could accommodate up to 50 houses, with each subdivided 3,200-square-foot block potentially fetching a million dollars each. Diane Zammit, 51, previously spoke to the outlet and reminisced about the area’s past, describing it as “farmland dotted with little red brick homes and cottages.”“Every home was unique and there was so much space — but not any more. It’s just not the same,” she said.

Most of the neighboring blocks of land sold back in 2012 — which would have valued the Zammits’ property at around $4.75 million 10 years ago. Their Windsor Castle-style home features a 650-foot driveway in the middle of their expansive lawn. About 40 minutes from Sydney’s central core, the property offers panoramic views of the Blue Mountains. The neighboring high-density homes are built right up to the property’s fence line.

[🥔🗺️ ᴘᴏᴋᴀᴛᴇᴏ ᴍᴀᴘs @pokateo_maps]

While on vacation, I met a woman at the swim up bar and asked about the coordinates on her arm: 5°N, 13°E

She said "it's for my kid's birthday, May 13th."

#gischat

[Kevin Nehring, PLS (aka Calif. Benchmark Hunter) @CaPLS8200]

Day #3 of the 2023 #CLSA / #NALS conference in Reno, NV. Standing room only for a seminar titled "To Accept, or not to Accept: That is the Question" about land boundary monumentation by Dennis Mouland. #NewToolsOldRules #LandSurveying
@CALandSurveyors @NVLandSurveyors

[Kevin Nehring, PLS (aka Calif. Benchmark Hunter) @CaPLS8200]

First session if the day at the CLSA/NALS conference in Reno, NV. A well attended CFedS workshop titled "Computations in the PLSS & Parentheticals" by Glen Thurow, PS, with CFedS, and Tasha Huhta with the BLM. #CLSA #NALS #ACNconference #LandSurveying #NewToolsOldRules

[Kevin Nehring, PLS (aka Calif. Benchmark Hunter) @CaPLS8200]

@GeodRuth We do ....we just leave the formal-wear at home for our days in the field. #NewToolsButOldRules

[Kevin Nehring, PLS (aka Calif. Benchmark Hunter) @CaPLS8200]

Every bit as accurate as anything we do now.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

How maps were made in 1961. From the tellurometer, a machine that measures distances through sound waves, to the stereo plotting machine

[📹 British Pathé: https://t.co/G0woRcwVAw]

[CLSA @CALandSurveyors]

Are you registered for the CLSA-NALS Conference -- March 25-28, 2023 at the Silver Legacy Resort & Casino in Reno, NV! Learn more: https://t.co/tUhZgC3xzx

[Kevin Nehring, PLS (aka Calif. Benchmark Hunter) @CaPLS8200]

@LandSurveyorsU Wood. Always.

The 30°-40° temperature swings in the summer here will kick a metal tripod out of level within minutes, especially if it's in direct sunlight.

[Kevin Nehring, PLS (aka Calif. Benchmark Hunter) @CaPLS8200]

I'm old enough to remember using a drafting table. Easier than CAD in my opinion, and in some cases, faster. (Just waxing nostalgic; not looking to ditch CAD at all. 😁)

[STEM @stem_feed]

Life before the invention of AutoCAD