This is the wort part of the piece in my opinion. A cell phone is fine for the precision most people need when locating their boundary. The precision ...

Yes, it is standard practice to "witness" a monument. Sandstone and not concrete because surveyors don't carry around bags of concrete. It could be u...

@michigan-left?ÿ now you are just trolling. If your evidence are not facts, you are doing something wrong.

@michigan-left "Surveyors are not fact finders." I vehemently disagree. A surveyor collects facts, applies their knowledge to determine which of those...

I would go even further. You won't be forcing the owners to accept the deed and the plat. You are forcing them to ignore everything on the deed and pl...

Does the monument match the description on the plat? Do you doubt the land owners when they tell you it is the original monument??ÿ Doesn't seem lik...

A tablet set in the concrete would be a efficient pincushion. For some reason surveyors generally have a mysterious love affair with mathematically "...

It sounds like the previous surveyors failed too. When you referred to previous surveys I assumed they were competent surveys. Apparently not.

Shove that one down the throat of those who refuse to provide a boundary opinion.

@jack-chiles If the previous surveys left a record, and from the record it apperars that the previous surveyors "followed the footsteps" and there ha...

As far as a license, that's hard to determine without knowing all the details, but if the layout doesn't require knowing where the boundaries are (or ...

I assume you are being sarcastic? It's hard to be a surveyor without using some algerbra. What do you do when there is no evidence of a corner. Stub i...

We complain when people use GIS to locate boundaries all the time. Now we are complaining they won't? I think it's a good policy to not rely on GIS. ...

The main reason I never considered a Veterans discount is that although, Veterans deserve our gratitude, and generally not a wealthy group, so do othe...

I can think of two reasons.?ÿ 1. The line is depicted just for orientation or location and is drawn from a record, or even a local GIS.?ÿ 2. The dis...

Why hinge the interpretation of the phrase on one,.of many, requirements for a survey??ÿ

The problem is you also count to 12, 3, 1/8, 5280...asinine. It's as bad as 20 shillings in a pound, 12 pence in a shilling and four farthings in a pe...

?ÿ In the case described there is nothing remaining to be measured.?ÿ In general on the ground measurements are only supporting evidence that helps...

@williwaw "My personal pet peeve are surveys that fail to show what was recovered and used to control the surveyed lines "?ÿ These kind of surveys ar...