> I'll bite. What's a "current CSJ"?
Control-Section-Job: current right-of-way
> If RTK was involved in your survey, you might want to make a rough estimate of the uncertainties in the area to be able to tell your client what the tolerances in the area as reported are.
Should I also give them my backsight residuals on rtk set control? I'm afraid, since as you noted above that they're not surveyors, that this will just further muddy the issue. I mean, it might explain a .0281 square foot discrepancy, but I guess we should be totally transparent. Maybe I should also mention that they might want to ask the previous surveyor which joint his field crew was on for the day before they forgot to turn doubles on a single boundary point.
What I actually told the attorney was that measured area was near the bottom of my list of concerns when determining how to reconstruct the boundary and that I'm pretty well satisfied that the tract they're purchasing is the same tract as previously conveyed in terms of intent.
> If RTK was involved in your survey, you might want to make a rough estimate of the uncertainties in the area to be able to tell your client what the tolerances in the area as reported are.
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> Should I also give them my backsight residuals on rtk set control? I'm afraid, since as you noted above that they're not surveyors, that this will just further muddy the issue. I mean, it might explain a .0281 square foot discrepancy, but I guess we should be totally transparent.
No, you'd calculate what the uncertainty in your estimate of the parcel area is based upon the uncertainties in the coordinates from which it was computed. If all the boundary points were located by RTK, for example, I think you'd be surprised how large the uncertainty in the computed area of a 6-acre tract could be.