Phew, about done working on a goofy Texas project. Them crazy Texans would go to a area, spit on the ground and say that is the start of my survey project and it is zero and zero point and we measure everything in the world from here. Then the rail roads would come through, and they had a totally different survey, and then some rancher would start another survey on the other side of the tracks and start at zero zero all over again. And somehow in 2019 they try to tie it together.
And even worse, almost none of the streets or roads run N,S,E,W. In the middle of nowhere, the road just goes off at 44 degrees rotated from North. WTF, crazy dang Texans.
And of course, when they do order a print, they want to see their roads as straightened up, so we get to rotate the map 44 degrees. In the mapping world, north is always up at least in the northern hemisphere. Mapping software really chokes when you try to rotate the earth to fit some silly view. But hey, they have money so we make the world fit their view. We like to make pretty pictures and make the customer happy so they give us money.
