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To: TXnMA

Nice digs on the Epstein digs.

I got a new laptop and have yet to install GE Pro. What is the EL change from the surrounding area to the benched-up area with the formal garden?

Looks like where the mansion is sited might be an elevation benchmark for you. Go from there.


349 posted on 07/24/2019 6:11:11 AM PDT by EMI_Guy ("You have to slow down to go fast." - Kenny Roberts)
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To: EMI_Guy

My estimate of the elevation of the garden is about 30 feet based on a photo which had a truck moving on a ramp.


351 posted on 07/24/2019 6:19:57 AM PDT by buffaloguy
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To: EMI_Guy
Thanks!

Evidently you're referring to Epstein's "Zorro Ranch" re the elevation question...

Haven't yet learned to place much confidence in GEPro for "fine" elevation measurements...

Do you use KML files? (My GEPro "KML catalog" is huge...)

Too bad I haven't figured out how to share KML files via FR. I have a "Zorro Ranch" KML folder that includes"eyeball-drawn" polygons for the max visible extent of the spoil dirt spread around that "Garden", plus a "volume extent" polygon denoting the "repose-limited" spoil pile actually supporting the "garden". (Of course, GEPro's "Get Info" supplies the area of those polygons...)

For elevation, I actually used a full-res version of the oblique view photo -- and did a "perspective-corrected eyeball comparison" between the height of the spoil beneath the "garden" -- and the 2-storey building in the compound. That gave me a "SWAG" thickness of the spoil pile of ~5 - 10 yards (since I was estimating the fill volume in cubic yards).

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FReepMail me when you get GEPro up and running -- then we can "talk shop"...

TXnMA
  

446 posted on 07/24/2019 8:58:19 AM PDT by TXnMA (Remember the Alamo! | Remember Goliad! | REPEAT San Jacinto!!)
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