On Mar 1, 4:37*pm, "george (dicegeorge)" <dicegeo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like a tool to measure the height of the neighbours' houses etc
> by geometry or trigonometry or drawing triangles on paper,
> the sort of thing i see surveyors with on a tripod,
> but I dont know what it'd be called.
> (It's greek to me)
>
> I dont need anything very accurate and expensive,
> so if anyone can tell me the name of what i want,
> or better provide a link to a cheap one,
> please do!
>
> [g]
When I was in the Scouts many moons ago we were taught how to measure
the height of trees and buildings using our trusty staves :-)
Simply measure the distance (say 100ft) to the subject, eye on the
ground, stave at 1 tenth of distance, mark off point on stave looking
up at the subject. Then simple geometry to work out height of subject.
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