I am try to locate a civilian topographic surveying book we used in the military about 1959-66. It was a brownish book then. Civilian publisher, not a military manual. Don’t recall if it was use at Ft. Beauvoir or not but we did use it at Hill AFB, Ut.
I think all the topo maps used by the military of US areas are from the USGS. The original surveys were done in the 40s and 50s, and updated photogrammetrically in the 70s.
~VOW
We are not interested in the maps but rather the book. It was a textbook describing the surveying processes that went into mapmaking. Black & Davis keeps coming back to me as the authors and shorthand for the book. The title was rarely mentioned. I cannot find any surveying books by Black & Davis. The Google searches are cluttered with some physics researchers by that name. Library of Congress is down this weekend.
Thanks for the bump.
Oooh, fun!
I did a bit of Googling myself, and you can sure get tangled up in some wild topics that have NOTHING to do with your search!
Try “old land surveying textbook” as a search term. USGS may help as a qualifier.
Good luck!
~VOW
Perry and Rees, perchance? My dad learned land surveying in the army around that time frame and this is one of the texts he owned.
Couldn’t tell you if it’s the same book or not, but Davis and Foote was the surveying Bible for all my years in surveying.