{"id":310,"date":"2006-08-25T08:06:12","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T13:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=310"},"modified":"2006-08-25T08:06:12","modified_gmt":"2006-08-25T13:06:12","slug":"which-way-is-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/25\/which-way-is-north\/","title":{"rendered":"Which way is North?&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On maps and blueprints North is almost always toward the top of the page (in the U. S. of A. anyway)&#8230;..  Notice I said <strong>&#8220;almost&#8221;<\/strong>&#8230;..  Yesterday I started a cost estimation on a new building to be built at <strong>Edmond Memorial High School<\/strong> ( a suburb of OKC)&#8230;..  I pulled up the <strong>Roof Plan<\/strong> page of the blueprints and became extremely familiar with the layout and &#8220;assumed&#8221;, without thinking that the North wall was at the top of the page, the East wall was to my right, etc., etc&#8230;.  Well, I had some questions on how all this tied-in to the construction of the building walls, so I brought-up the <strong>Elevations<\/strong> pages and thought &#8220;what the Hell&#8221;&#8230;&#8230;  The elevations didn&#8217;t match the roof plans&#8230;..  That&#8217;s when I noticed that the drawing labeled <strong>South Elevation<\/strong> was actually, to me, the <strong>North Elevation<\/strong> and the <strong>East<\/strong> was the <strong>West<\/strong>&#8230;.  I thought the architect had screwed-up the labeling of the views&#8230;..  I went back to the roof plan and low and behold the <strong>North Indicator<\/strong> was pointing to the bottom of the page!&#8230;..  So, now, even before the building is off the drawing board, I am turned around&#8230;..  I can image if we get the job, the problems I&#8217;ll have on the jobsite&#8230;..  Of course, I had the same problem at <strong>Jek&#8217;s<\/strong> house and it took a long time and concentration to get my brain orientated to the proper directions&#8230;..  It&#8217;s funny how your brain gets &#8220;set in concrete&#8221; on some things and refuses to change&#8230;&#8230;  (I&#8217;m waiting on comments from the <strong>Peanut Gallery<\/strong>)&#8230;..  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On maps and blueprints North is almost always toward the top of the page (in the U. S. of A. anyway)&#8230;.. Notice I said &#8220;almost&#8221;&#8230;.. Yesterday I started a cost estimation on a new building to be built at Edmond Memorial High School ( a suburb of OKC)&#8230;.. I pulled up the Roof Plan page [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}