Geezer,
The problem with doing what they want is that the next person to review wants you to change it back the way it was. It is a circle of red ink! :'(
joe
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Typing class 9th grade!
A couple of years ago I did an ALTA as part of the decommissioning of a large industrial facility. The facility was on the banks at the confluence of two rivers. The site was riddled with "flood control structures" which I called dykes (just like several of the vesting documents dated in the late 30's. The reviewers really took a dim view of this and made me change it across the 15 sheets. It did not dawn on me that someone would complain about the proper spelling because it also has a slang meaning. I about told them to shove off except for the fact that they were paying for bill. Hell, it was how I was taught to spell it, but then I was also taught to aluminium.
This kind of thing goes on in many, many professional and academic situations. I spent thirty-some years teaching college English, and never met a colleague, including myself, who didn’t have some little list of abbreviation or punctuation rules, or stock phrases, or the like, that he/she enjoyed either encouraging or forbidding in student work. Asking, or telling, students to avoid the phrase “due to the fact that” is a matter of personal preference that is perhaps defensible on grounds of flabbiness and verbosity; quite often, the word “because” will work more efficiently. But it’s a matter of opinion, not of fact.
Opinions proliferate in manuals of what is called style, using the word in a far different sense than that intended in the title foggyidea mentioned. (That book, by the way, is a masterpiece, a landmark of twentieth-century civilization, and nearly useless in an elementary writing class because it preaches to the choir.) Those other manuals of style lay out the specific typographical and idiomatic requirements of a specific group. The Government Printing Office has one, and the University of Chicago publishes one that is widely but not universally used.
I’ve got about 27 hours of surveying coursework with the Wyoming online program, and I haven’t yet figured out whether it is generally preferred to use or to omit the period after the “m” that abbreviates “meters.” It . . . depends.
Cheers,
Henry
Dear Map Reviewer,
Dear Map Reviewer,
Thank you for your suggestions. Obviously you put a lot of thought into your review and are very concerned with enhancing the accuracy and clarity of the information presented on my map.
I too would like to offer a couple of suggestions that should help you to provide salient and useful review comments. Please remove your head from your seat and apply reason in your future map reviews.
In the meantime, please file the map as is.
With all due respect,
Rankin file, PLS
I use three colors of pen when reviewing.
RED for "must be changed".
PURPLE for "please explain this to me.."
BLUE for "I think this would look better if...."
"please add a comma and remove extra spaces...."
woohoo! more commas 🙂
Good system. it would probably save a lot of grief if all map reviewers used a similar system.
works great evan unless it is a parcel map
ok sounds good to me but when it is a parcel map or final map these seem to think they have special super hero powers that trump state law...
> Good system.
The new Assistant Land Surveyor at Sacramento County uses red for "needs to be revised," blue for "inquiries, suggestions, or observations," and regular pencil for "notes to myself." I have a ROS in for checking, and find the new system helpful.
I also appreciate that he caught a significant goof that I made in fitting an odd little curved bit at one corner of the boundary. (It was significant in terms of correctness, though not very significant in terms of land affected.) I misread the deed and substituted the chord distance for the arc length on a short piece of 25-foot-radius curve. It's times like these that I really appreciate map checkers!
Jon's a good guy. Will go out of his way to help someone. It doesn't surprise me that he would use a system designed to increase the helpfulness of his review comments.
works great evan unless it is a parcel map
Apparently, you are not aware of section 66410.007, which is rarely published in the publicly available copies of the SMA and rarely seen by anyone outside of the reviewing staff of the local agency (CA legislators don't see it either - they have to pass it in order to have the opportunity to know what's in it). I once came across it in a super secret web site of statutes normally only available to govt employees with "the need to know." I don't recall the link, and it was erased from my computer because I know longer need to know anything. But it essentially said that unlicensed map reviewers of local agencies are empowered to create minor regulations pertaining to map content on the spot and may also change those regulations as they see fit.
In other words, you're screwed, Dane. Remove all mentions of any boundary evidence that does not conform to the most recent city-wide adjustment of the main block corners (make sure you note the official difference from the "true" block corner per the City/County's adjustment to the existing block corner monument though). If you do not comply, your review may require additional effort and fees and approval may be delayed indefinitely.
Your format for Tp, Rg, and Meridian conforms to what BLM shows in all field notes and technical correspondence. That might be indicative of some kind of accepted if not standard use and not an aberrant use.
- jlw
What county are you dealing with?
" It's times like these that I really appreciate map checkers!"
Most professionals do appreciate map checkers. Especially licensed and experienced map checkers, and especially those professionals that really need a second pair of eyes because no one else reviews their work.
Don