Surveying [Paperback]

Jack C. McCormac (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 23, 2003 | ISBN-10: 0471237582 | ISBN-13: 978-0471237587 | Edition: 5

This book provides a comprehensive coverage of the essential skills necessary in surveying and civil engineering. It covers measurements, distance corrections, leveling, angles, area computation, computer calculations, topographic surveying, electronic distance measuring instruments, and construction surveying.
* Includes photos and diagrams, lists of useful addresses and degree programs, surveying tables and formulas.
* Updated to include more coverage of GPS and GIS.

Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 5 edition (October 23, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471237582
• ISBN-13: 978-0471237587
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 1 x 11.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #236,411 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible Book, August 24, 2007

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Redtail (CA, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Surveying (Paperback)

This was a horrible text book, contradictory in information, difficult to understand and pontificatingly lengthy! One of the only textbooks I have ever sold back!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Maybe the 6th edition will be better., October 2, 2007

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7thLotus "7thLotus" (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Surveying 5th Edition (Paperback)

It is amazing to believe that this is a fifth edition book. The subjects chosen are potentially good choices but the author slices and dices the text to the point of confusion. In order to make a smaller, more manageable book, he has excised discussions which would help in explaining many of these advanced topics. I would like to say he was creating a "Surveying for Dummies" book but that would discredit the concise and well-written texts of this nature and give him too much credit. At close to $100 for a flimsy, ill-written, badly or never edited text, I would be ashamed to put my name on the cover no less be the printing house associated with this book. If you are an instructor looking for a book, run quickly away from this title; you'd be better off sending your students out onto the internet for information that would be more legible and definitely much cheaper.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Clear illustrations, but many mistakes throughout the book, December 19, 2009

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This review is from: Surveying (Paperback)

I was required to purchase this text for my beginning Plane Surveying class. As my title indicates, there are good points and bad points to this book. There are many misprints and outright mistakes printed throughout the book, but the teachers liked it because it does provide some simple illustrations to help the beginning student in understanding basic concepts of land surveying. Our school has since switched to a different text.