It is a standard requirement to provide map check calculations with the first submittal.
The map checker shouldn't have to do his own calculations.
"The map checker shouldn't have to do his own calculations."
I must be missing something...
> It is a standard requirement to provide map check calculations with the first submittal.
>
> The map checker shouldn't have to do his own calculations.
Things may have changed but but one California County I know of did (does?) not require mapchecks if the ROS is prepared by a State Agency. Supposedly out of "professional courtesy."
There were some "Surveyors" that couldn't have their drafting and/or legal description match their own map checks to save their soulo.O , so I made a point of checking everything
I reviewed a number of maps on the provided link. I find it surprising to see so many found monuments that do not have tags or caps with licensee numbers. Also surprising is the number of monuments with no record reference.
In California, when the surveyor finds a monument that does not have a reference the surveyor is required to file a record (Ref. CA Bus. & Prof. Code 8762 and 8765). Looking at the filed records provided in Sacramento County a surveyor could not set up and instrument without being required to file either a record of survey or a corner record. Using this same logic applied to the records filed, it would appear as though very few surveys actually occur, on an annual basis, in Sacramento County.
As stated previously, the law (enacted in 1891) in California never singularly stated that setting a monument was the only trigger to filing a record of survey. In fact, until 1939 all surveys performed were required to be filed as a record of survey.
Oftentimes, I'll hear a surveyor say he didn't file a record of survey because "I didn't set monuments". The complete sentence is actually a thought "I didn't set monuments, therefore nobody will ever know I was here".
It is a phenomenon I call "Surveyors refusing to survey".
DWoolley