What do you think about this practice?

holy-cow · 2013-01-16T22:46:00Z

This is a situation happening more and more in PLSSia. It is probably running rampant elsewhere. The use of SHINY COORDINATES over the real world.Current situation is a case of a tract being severed from a quarter section. All four corners of that quarter have been established or found previously by the firm doing the current survey. You can bet each corner has a SHINY COORDINATE assigned to it, based on prior work. In fact, each time you use one of those corners you are to file a new Land Survey Reference Report with the State and county.Current filed survey severing this tract indicates at each of the four section corners as follows: Not located on this survey.My thought is that you can't be certain you are on the true line between any two of these corners unless you have recovered and shot them in during your current project. Preferably by line of sight, but, at least, by doing all the GPS work at nearly the same time. Not a year ago or whenever. This probably allows them to claim they do not need to file new corner records as they didn't actually find them again.Opinions please.

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Yes, I think that when coordinates are obtained and filed by statutory requirements in the modern world, we all can rely on them. No more searching for evidence. When the reason for the rule is gone (unreliable measurements) then the rule should quietly fade as well.

If the surveyor license is only about retracement surveys, then the profession is quickly outliving its purpose.

Posted : January 17, 2013 8:15 pm

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