I don't have the patience to try to understand the details here without a map. The rule you were taught is only applicable if it doesn't lead you to i...

@jph Do you really think that the tests required for a license ensure that a surveyor is a good boundary surveyor? That's not even the stated objecti...

Except most if these programs have an order of magnitude more students than surveying programs at most schools.?ÿ

Native American cultural studies is very applicable to land surveying.

@dave-karoly a differnce of opinion is not grounds to call a surveyor bad. How (and if) they defend that opinion is. Your neck of the woods tends to ...

@jph as I said I do not have the balls to announce this to the world and think this video should be taken down.?ÿ I can understand the anger at posti...

I guess I am not a surveyor.?ÿ I will usually go without before drinking Folgers. But seriously, I assume it was done harmlessly out of habit, but "h...

@holy-cow "..with no explanation as to how the locations of the set monuments were determined." Unbelievably surveyors are still putting out this cr...

Experience and judicial review. If you can't explain to me why that magnail you accepted as the section corner is the corner of the parcel you survey...

"Most" , but that doesn't mean there aren't plenty of good ones around.

@dave-karoly?ÿ part of being a good land surveyor is understanding when what was the wrong boundary location has become the right boundary location.

I don't think it's that simple anywhere.?ÿ

I wholeheartedly agree that most surveyors are bad boundary surveyors, but I wouldn't try to sell myself to the public with that statement.?ÿ

Why would you not need a survey? The fence won't be there (at least in the same place) in 100 years.?ÿ If both owners "choose" to honor a fence there...

@jon-payne The biggest problem is the introduction of profit seeking finianal institutions and for profit schools.?ÿ The $200,000 debts are not the n...

Dr. Hermansen makes some good points, but I think most of us agree that the four year programs are not producing graduates who have the skills to star...

I do think teaching skill should be one of the criteria used in hiring professors, but there is a big difference between teaching a seventh grader and...

I do think teaching skill should be one of the criteria used in hiring professors, but there is a big difference between teaching a seventh grader and...

@jon-payne they do have debt in those countries, but it is a matter of scale.Tuition at the top universities in those countries is10%-25% of the tuiti...

@williwaw the correct term is "land description". A land description can be an illegal description (i.e. a description prepared for an illegal subdivi...