ok peeps...
Question:
How many Land Surveyors do you know, have been sued because, their least square adjustment on the ALTA map did not meet the requirements of said ALTA requirements?
None, and I've been doing ALTAs coast to coast for 43 years.
None
None should be everyone's answer
I say SHOULD. It could have happened for some bizarre reason, but I doubt it.
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> How many Land Surveyors do you know, have been sued because, their least square adjustment on the ALTA map did not meet the requirements of said ALTA requirements?
I don't know many surveyors have been sued period. (hopefully it will stay that way.) Not sure that a least squares adjustment can cause damages one way or the other and I doubt a suit would even mention that. Being found to not fulfill the minimum standards would probably be enough to get a survey thrown out though. Then you may fall under breach of contract etc. If said LSQ ADJ doesn't meet requirements, there is a certification for that.
I don't know many surveyors have been sued period.
Thankfully I can agree with that statement.
But is there more of a backstory to the original question from our OP Joe?
I haven't been involved with ALTAs for several years so it's possible I'm missing something.
If your survey does not meet the Relative Positional Precision needed to pass the accuracy standards, you just need to state what accuracy (in distance-plus-PPM) you DID achieve. I think the problem is that some people don't want to invest in the training and software needed to be able to first figure out what the standards require and then be able to demonstrate with confidence that they are satisfying those standards.