My new favroite Basis statement

A bit Spartan - indicative of less technical proficiency. :snarky:

Boy, that was kinda like Satan answering The Lord, in the Book of Job:
"And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."

He answered the question, but he did not give any information away!

MDR surveying. Minimum Daily Requirement.

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N

Satan should've checked with his Attorney before answering any questions from "The Man".

> BEARINGS ARE ASSUMED BUT RELATIVE
That's fine if the audience is another surveyor. But it's not a complete sentence. It's not like it's a telegram where we pay by the word.

Well, Norman, what about this? Isn't this to be understood by another surveyor only?

Basis of Bearings: NAD 1983, Arkansas State Plane Grid Bearings, South Zone (None of my clients would understand it.)

I mean, I do think it (the topic of this thread) is spartan, But it is honest!

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N

You should always assume the bearings are assumed even if the plat says they are not.

At least I know the east west bearings aren't on a curve 🙂

Hey, they have the same definition for marriages is some states, as you do for bearings.:-P

that looks like something someone tried to post from an android based platform....o.O

Another good one:

Bearings are based on GPS

Yeah, BOB is GPS

"Good Piece Salmon"

Yeah!

> Basis of Bearings: NAD 1983, Arkansas State Plane Grid Bearings, South Zone (None of my clients would understand it.)
Being spartan really isn't a virtue. The Spartans are all dead now. When they were alive they were appallingly vicious and cruel.

Being concise is a virtue but not when it comes at the expense of clarity. A client may not understand what you write, but he will recognize sentence structure. When a surveyor expresses himself in the grammatical equivalent of grunts and chirps it reflects badly on him, and by association on the whole profession. Down home mannerisms and figures of speech may be fine when you are chatting with your client over the fence but in written communications you should employ complete and grammatically correct English.

I owe that to you. How I carry on my business has an effect on you.

You owe it to me.

The Basis of Bearings of this survey is the Arkansas State Plane Grid, South Zone, based on the North American Datum of 1983 as adjusted in 2011 [NAD83(2011)]. Control for this survey was established with reference to the National Geodetic Survey's (NGS) Continually Operating Reference Stations (CORS) and resolved using the On-line Positioning User Service (OPUS). Coordinates are expressed in units of US Survey Feet, where 1 meter = 3937/1200 US Survey feet.

> Another good one:
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> Bearings are based on GPS

I see that pretty frequently. "Basis of Bearings is GPS North."

GPS north

I see that also. So I guess they are on "true" bearings;-)

Another good one from a local guy:

Basis of Bearing: WGS 84. The same guy will do another survey in the section next to it with a common line, and actually show different bearings on the same line. Once again - Basis: WGS 84

Maybe they should take the "HERE" key off those stupid data collectors.

I'm a bit old school on this subject, but always figured that the basis is based on a measurement between 2 existing monuments so that the survey data could be retraced. Call it North, East or whatever, but it can be retraced as long as the monuments exist and/or your points which are based on them still exist.