More importantly in almost every state (every?), and in the NCEES model law a degree other than an ABET degree can be used to qualify.?ÿ ABET is a pr...

Of course you would rather not. I would have rathered not taking any exam at all, but I am glad that that all those other idiots out there have to mee...

@holy-cow?ÿ Althought there are rare exceptions, usually a boundary in a creek would follow the thread, or the medial line,?ÿ not the the thalweg. Th...

@glenn-breysacher?ÿ It does work the way you say in Texas. I am to lazy to research MN law, but your way of looking at things doesn't apply in many s...

Once an offer of a public easement is on the table (the plat) it doesn't require govement action for the public to accept it. That is why a formal vac...

@duane-frymire?ÿ You may be more familiar with MN law then me, but many states have statutory requirments to vacate a public ROW. In those states a q...

There is quite a bit of variation in how public ROWs are treated between jurisdictions. My guess is that whatever entity that would have jurisdiction ...

@oldpacer?ÿ The only times I have pulled one is to replace it with a more substantial monument, and that is of course documented in a recorded survey...

@dave-karoly?ÿ Which is great if they have a quality cap, but the plastic caps people use for some reason will either be lost or illegible long befor...

Yeah, when the DOT roads are not on a section line and there is no modern survey you are lucky when there are concrete monuments. In that case they us...

His point is not invalid for Alaska at all. AKDOT&PF accepts surveys that use the concrete markers all the time. This doesn't mean that they won't...

@williwaw?ÿ Sounds convincing to me. The question is, what now, and why didn't they just plat the ROW as an easement? I guess that is a "trick" that ...

Every time this subject comes up someone claims that DOT gets the full width rearrdless of monuments, and everytime the proponent of that idea fails t...

Maybe once or twice in your career, but some of us do this on most jobs. The whole country is not developed yet, there is a lot of "wilderness" left.?...

The ROW is what it is. The fact that you choose to use feet to report your measurements doesn't move the boundary. But... Why are you converting a di...

Is microsurvey capable of geodetic calculations?

@northernsurveyor?ÿ The BLM surveys of the active lines make things easy. What is hard is the abandoned narrow gage railways acquired by the Alaska R...

The centerline of the tracks is usually a last resort. Although the RR's act like it, they often don' have the unilateral power to decide where their ...

@norm?ÿ They got one thing wrong: "entirely obliterated" is not true. Mostly obliterated, yes, entirely, no.?ÿ But apart from that, this quote is in...

I think some of us are forgetting that sometimes we are the first to break down a section. It is also sometimes usefull to know how far off the corne...