Talk:Baseline (surveying)

This seems quite a limited article, and should be more general it's linked to from other pages which are talking about surveying baselines in more general terms. I'm not knowledgable enough to write a better article, but as I understand it a baseline is a line of known length from which you can derive all other distances in a survey, by measuring the angles and using basic trigonometry (don't know if that's the right words). There should be some mention of this general sense of baseline in this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.43.134.241 (talk) 23:02, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

Baseline vs. Base Line
Someone edited the PLSS article to change "Baseline" to "Base Line", which prompted me to investigate it. The defining texts at the BLM  all use the spelling "base line".

A Google search of the blm.gov site for items containing both "meridian" and "baseline" yields about 1200 results. A search using the other form "base line" yields only 200 results. However, the "base line" results seem to be more of the type of document cited above - defining and educational documents about the PLSS. The "baseline" form seems to be used in documents that make reference to particular meridians and base lines, or for other (non-survey-related) meanings of the word.

So, it seems that "base line" is the correct official form, but "baseline" is acceptable casual usage. Should we change this article's title to "base line" and add a redirect page for "baseline", or add a redirect page for "base line"? Either way, the article should mention the alternate spelling issue.

Refs: AlanM1 (talk) 13:34, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

Standard parallel
“Standard parallel” redirects here but isn’t covered. Jim (talk) 05:46, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

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