@fairbanksls Yeah, some surveyors seem to have a very broad definition of practice law and a very narrow definition of being a surveyor. These situat...

@jph Dealing with local platting boards/zoning/planning department ?ÿis a natural service for Land surveyors and is a service provided by land survey...

I completely get your frustration, and a "surveyor" who can't explain his data in inexcusable, but don't forget that a well run survey with a good tot...

@jack-chiles Do you have monuments inside your home in Texas????? The theory behind this is that every property corner is required to locate the lan...

@skeeter1996 I am not sure what we were using was a "survey" instrument. This was work for a government agency in coordination with a University.?ÿ

@skeeter1996 I guess I was cheating a little bit. It wasn't a total station, just an EDM. I don't remember what it was. It was my first introduction ...

About 4 miles for a tie to the nearest monument to an Alaska State Land Survey.?ÿ

Some states don't even have LSIT's. All that usually matters is that you have passed the FS. If you plan to become licenced in your new state you will...

@dougie Most state boundaries don't coincide with a normal section line. The small kinks are usually a mile posts or natural features.?ÿ Who cares? ...

@mathteacher The real details are in the notes.?ÿ

@fairbanksls Where you are, the way to do it is a new playt with all distances noted as record and a new lot number for the combined lots. This is a ...

@paden-cash Vacating the lot lines is definitely the best way to go about it.?ÿ What has changed since 1948? Probably your zoning ordinces, but also...

@paden-cash It does seem silly, but there is some sense to it. In most areas with zoning it would be impossible to not create a zoning violation by b...

I think zip code population density would be a more useful metric than zipcode population.?ÿ

@bill93 I understand what you are saying, it doesn't involve a GIS rendered boundary, but it does involve a boundary. The entire question is where th...

@jph I have spent time in rural New England, and I am sure your assessment of the situation is spot on, but neither of us can predict the future.?ÿ

@not-my-real-name There certainly is times that surveying is unnecessary, but my question is who do you expect to make that decision. The planner obv...

This is strange thread. How far is far enough from the brook to trust the GIS? Do you want a planner making that decision??ÿ

@jph What is hinterlands now, may have been the intersection of four fences 20 years ago, or a monument farm when the next surveyor is visiting 100 y...

@rover83 Crap article? I wouldn't be so generous. This is a crap opinion piece. The board may be abusing Constitutional rights as claimed here, but y...