User talk:Rking1952

There is a reference to the area of Governor's Circle as being 3 acres. I believe this to be incorrect. I personally was working on the IMAGIS project when it was being developed. During that work I had the opportunity to recreate the plat of the mile square. There were other plats in addition to the Ralston map, one in particular which included lot dimensions in feet and inches for those lot lines radial to the center of Monument Circle. Years before IMAGIS, working as a survey technician and helping to perform land surveys on some of the properties on Monument Circle, it was noted that, those lot distances in feet, inches, and fractions of inches were peculiar. These distances were taken at value and we proceeded with our surveys. Back on the IMAGIS project, I was attempting to create a digital plat of the mile square when I noticed on the plat that there was a diameter measurement provided for the circle, i.e. 333.06 feet. This dimension seemed odd to me as holding the radius to and even foot was the general norm. If you use this figure to calculate the acreage of monument circle, you find that its area contains 87120 square feet, which is exactly 2 acres. Holding this diameter measurement, the width of Circle Street bore out those peculiar distances on the radial lot lines. Surveyors, when they layout subdivisions, sometimes hold something "Even" somewhere integral to the geometry on the plat. Sometimes this isn't so obvious. There's a subdivision up at Geist where the "Even" thing just happens to be whole foot distances between the radius points of 3 cul-de-sacs. If I was in Indianapolis, I could provide a plat reference for the diameter value. I believe it was titled something on the line of The Plat of the City of Indianapolis and Environs, including the Outlots West of White River, which would have been made subsequent to the Ralston plat when additional lands were annexed to the City.

Rking1952 (talk) 04:49, 6 December 2012 (UTC) One other trivia item about monument circle or even more so on the mile square that surrounds it. That is the slight angular rotation of the mile square to the cardinality of the streets and blocks surrounding the mile square. This rotation is due to the fact that the mile square was laid out using a magnetic compass and the outlots were laid out based upon astronomic north. This rotation is something under 2 degrees, and is very noticeable from an aerial photo.