?ÿI was only referring to "designing developments". I thought my feelings about the boundary surveying part of what was described didn't need to be re...

Of course it is unethical to take on a job that you are not competent to perform, but I think?ÿ "competent to perform" means different things to diffe...

I don't see much ethical problem with designing your own developments. Does anybody?

Depending on the easement language and the managing entity it may be possible to build over the pipe. The draw backs are obvious, but in some places ...

The problem is thath there is no reason we should expect that a road be constructed symmetrically inside the ROW. They are often even designed that wa...

Better than assuming ignorance or arrogance.

I hope this post is a victim of sarcasm not translating well?

@mightymoe that rational would only make sense if a centimeter was some odd fraction of a meter, and a km was a random number of meters, (e.x. 1,023).

Better then those pesky Albanian meters.?ÿ Before Canada went metric we had the infuriating use of differnt gallons, and all the volume measures defi...

Canada too, but in both there was a period where feet were used.

Ahh, I see what the problem is.?ÿ A 'Conflict of Interst" doesn't imply disagreement, or adversity between two people. It is a factual description of...

@michigan-left please! Enough dividing by 3 and five thousand two hundred something. And what kind of modern society measures with fractions?

We really should be using radians ???? (only half kidding). One thing that American surveyors should adopt from many other parts of the world is the ...

A surveyor marks the boundary on the ground and creates a record so later surveyors and land owners will be able to place the boundary in the same pos...

No one has implied that you should. You are bringing up a situation that no one has expressed an opnion on. I don't have the bandwidth to consider a ...

It sounds like a case by case analysis may be I?ÿ order.

I am confused. I think there must be some miscommunication going on, because it seems so obvious to me that I must be misunderstanding something.?ÿ I...

You don't have to go to Alskanta to far exceed 1 hour between surveyors.?ÿ Remote in Alaska means flying in. If you are a remote landowner in Alaska ...

Yep its about time to wrap this up. Your interst your land runs contrary to the interst of your neighbors, seems pretty clear to me.

But no one is suggesting we try to avoid the "slightest hint of bias".?ÿ We aren't talking about bias here. A conflict of interst (see definition abov...