Today I met with a builder who is building 3 homes on three lots side by side, for which I laid out the house sites and subsequently produced the as built surveys.?ÿ The rear lines are all straight, with tall PVC pipes I had placed at all lot corners.?ÿ The builder now wants to add a detached garage, so while I was waiting for the builder to show, I saw that a very substantial wooden fence had been constructed around the large backyard and went to examine the obvious dog legged fence at the rear of the lot.?ÿ The fence encroaches about 6' as it arcs and wends its convoluted passage in its tortuous route.?ÿ ?ÿSo I brought this to the attention of the builder (very nice fellow, if a bit frazzled) and he called the fence builder on the phone.?ÿ ?ÿI could hear the other end of the conversation as the fencer assured the home builder that "there was no way it could be wrong as he had GPS" .
A local group of hunters "staked" State lands. I got a bunch of work from that fiasco.
There was a write up in the paper how they were using the GIS and accurate GPS equipment.
They had no idea what they were doing. One landowner had stakes 600' into his hay meadow. Others showed stock tanks and corrals onto the public lands. One landowner said the path made by signs staked out along a straight property line looked like the path of a fish swimming upstream.?ÿ
"there was no way it could be wrong as he had GPS" .
Is the fence bubba using an Android or ios GPS app on his/her/its cell phone? It makes a difference ya know.... ?????ÿ
Lots of people own GPS equipment.
Do they know how to use one?
Are they licensed to opine legally about boundary locations?
That's the issue.
Don't his eyes tell him it isn't straight?
As one former client who was upset with the true location of his property line said, "I ain't gonna believe no dammm machine."
What I had done was to set up directly on line.?ÿ Focused in on the flag about one-quarter mile to the east and had him look through the lens to see the flag.?ÿ I then very carefully showed him how I plunged the scope to look the exact opposite direction.?ÿ Again, I focused the view, then had him look at the flag roughly a quarter mile to the west.?ÿ That's when he blew up and made his eloquent pronouncement.
Don't his eyes tell him it isn't straight?
Don??t believe your lying eyes.