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Can you apply the Bowditch compass rule to distribute the misclosure proportionally and give me the corrected leg endpoints?"},{"title":"Construction site control traverse balance","prompt":"Our construction site control survey traverse starts at (0, 0), should end at (482.3, 157.6), and has four legs: 200 m at 18°, 310 m at 95°, 175 m at 200°, and 260 m at 310°. Run a Bowditch length-proportional closure adjustment on it so we get an auditable correction for each leg."},{"title":"Mining survey underground traverse correction","prompt":"I need to balance an underground mining traverse — it starts at coordinates (−200, −500), closes on (−185, −430), and has six legs with lengths and azimuths: 80 m at 5°, 60 m at 90°, 95 m at 175°, 70 m at 265°, 55 m at 350°, and 40 m at 60°. Please apply the Bowditch compass rule and show me the proportional correction for each leg."}],"resultDescription":"Returns the corrected traverse with per-leg closure corrections distributed proportionally to leg length (Bowditch/compass rule), including the raw linear misclosure vector, the correction applied to each leg's northing and easting components, and an auditable breakdown suitable for survey documentation.","failureModes":["Traverse leg count outside 2–64 range returns a validation error","Coordinates or lengths outside ±1,000,000 / 0.000001 bounds are rejected","Degenerate traverse where total length is effectively zero causes division error","Malformed or missing required fields (start, end, legs, length, azimuth_degrees) return 400-level errors","Payment failure (x402) if USDC balance insufficient"],"whenToPreferThis":"Choose this endpoint when you need a standards-compliant, auditable Bowditch (compass rule) closure correction for a plane survey traverse and require a documented per-leg adjustment proportional to leg length. 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