Thank you for posting this. Assuming there isnt a note that explains this somewhere else on the plat, surveys like this infuriate me. Sometimes its w...

It causes a lot of unnecessary mistakes. Why make things more complicated by doing things differently then everyone else??ÿ Don't get me started on d...

@dougie?ÿ Some of a surveyor's work isn't really surveying. As mentioned above designating street names is a common one. Others are interpeting subdi...

@holy-cow Although including attorneys is obviously not desirable (what do most attorneys know about boundaries?) that's better then nothing. Maybe it...

@frozennorth?ÿ There have been attorneys in Alaska who have been disciplined for writing legal descriptions. At least one lost his license.?ÿ

@dave-karoly In some states only a licensed surveyor is allowed to write land descriptions.?ÿ

@mightymoe?ÿ Unless you are just trying to be helpful (which is great) I wouldn't waste my time trying to fix the GIS. The GIS may be the "official" ...

What does the county GIS have to do with anything here? It is misleading everyone, but the county and the landowners have to sign off on an actual sur...

Whether you are working at home, or in the office, and how far away where you are working is from the site is immaterial. What matters is how you are ...

Tuition for the University of Calgary geomatics program is 3,083 CAD per semester for citizens (about 2500 USD).?ÿ

The "survey" should be public if it is a boundary survey, unless your state allows for secrete boundaries (in which case the price should be discounte...

It looks like this thread is going in the right direction, but just wanted to be clear that this question does not have a single general answer. The a...

@jitterboogie?ÿ About 12 years somebody stole the tripod out from under our base just outside Las Cruces. Left everything, battery, radio, GPS unit.....

@mike-marks In the PLSS it should be a trivial effort for a surveyor or even a GIS technician to locate the plat, for laymen and outside the PLSS, not...

@jph Me neither, but unfortunately this title has a real world effect on our job responsibilities, recruiting, and compensation.?ÿ?ÿ

We don't have to alter our requirements. We have to decide whether land surveyors are professionals or not. It will be very hard to make the argument ...

@jph?ÿ I am beginning to think we have a fundamental disagreement about what land surveyors do. A measuring engineer probably does not need a four ye...

An understanding of the world that leads to the?ÿ realization that good policy is not based on antetdotes is ideally a result of an education.

@jph?ÿ That doesn't leave much in terms of quality control. Experience under gained under a deed staker, and a test of some basic math (FS), some mul...

Of course the individual can matter more than the program, but that's not really helpful when designing regulations. We can't have a JPH in every stat...