Erratum for “Consequences of Ignoring the Curvature of the Earth in Nineteenth-Century Large Surveys: A Case Study of Geometrical Geodesy and the Survey of the Texas and Pacific Railway Company Eighty-Mile Reserve”

The following corrections should be made to “Consequences of Ignoring the Curvature of the Earth in Nineteenth-Century Large Surveys: A Case Study of Geometrical Geodesy and the Survey of the Texas and Pacific Railway Company Eighty-Mile Reserve” by David A. Rolbiecki, https://doi.org/10.1061/JSUED2.SUENG-1499:

In the second-to-last sentence of the “SI Units” section (p. 2), the Sft is incorrect. The sentence should read: “For a comparison, 1,900.8 varas equals 5,280 Sft, or 1 mi (1.609347 km).”

The longitude was left out of the last sentence of the first paragraph after Fig. 21 (p. 19). The sentence should read, “Using the expedient Log M latitude and Log P departure factors for 31°, the geographic position for Station $B$ is = 31°19′57.482 31″ N, 105°47′39.691 27″ W (Fig. 22).”

The metric comparison is missing from the third sentence in the final paragraph on page 21. The sentence should read, “Although they were well aware of the rectangular system of laying out meridians and baselines in the PLSS states, it seems they only used it on the Texas–New Mexico boundary and possibly to correct the south line of the Eighty-Mile Reserve, which in his report dated February 16, 1884, to the governor of Texas, McCombs wrote that this line was 152,064 varas (80 mi; 128.748 km) south of the 32nd Parallel at Latitude 30°50′21″ N (Powell 1931, p. 15).”

In the “References,” the reference for Senate Bill 73. 1919 should not include “Houston: Texas Society of Professional Surveyors.”

To preserve the published version of record, these details have been corrected only in this erratum.