Customer Reviews

Surveying

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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!

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.

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.

This book has all the information you will need, but in a poorly laid out and difficult to read format

This semester I took my droid and compared prices of the campus bookstore and amazon. Found several books on Amazon cheaper including this one. Saved a bundle and can still get my classwork done...

Jack McCormac's Surveying provides a rather in-depth study of the material. Being broken up in to chapters, each one has exercises to work on to see if you know the material as well as apply it. It presents it in a clear manner that I believe everyone can understand. You get your money's worth for sure.