"For appointment from the eligible list, you must have a New York State Surveyor’s license and current registration." $86K max for a PLS in NY? I wa...

@rover83 well I was mostly talking about boundaries, but I have certainly sent geodetic products to designers before. No complaints. Less chance for t...

@chris-bouffard no I am not. I have no idea how you jumped to that conclusion. I didn't say anything about errors or blunders

if your are surveying by lat long you are doing it wrong. (Especially in decimal degrees) I beg to disagree. You might very well be doing it by th...

@holy-cow if your are surveying by lat long you are doing it wrong. (Especially in decimal degrees)

Of course there are quite a few fraudulent surveys out there, but the majority of such accusations don't pan out. I am not saying your area doesn't ha...

@jon-payne quality measured by Yelp star reviews??? In addition to the issues you pointed out with this, I would assume their are very very few Yelp r...

@mightymoe no idea if your critrism is warranted or not, but boundary law does differentiate between private and public land owners in many situations...

@gene-kooper I am confused by the interpretations of this Act. The examination requirment for license by endorsement was replaced by "satisfies the ...

Tom and Chris seem to be discussing two differnt things. Tom is taking about a boundary that "more or less" follows a creek, and Chris is talking abou...

All 4 corners were staked by the previous 20 year old survey. I'm kind of leaning towards holding the four corners as staked. That is a good so...

If there were easy and automatic solutions, there would be no need for licensed surveyors to be involved. Yes! And "easy automatic solutions" inclu...

Be careful that you are not the one "creating" the problem. Problems that small are sometimes created in the heads of expert measurers or GIS speciali...

@holy-cow These statutes are not written how we would write them today, but as has been pointed out, they don't necessarily prohibit remote work, even...

I do think it is possible in today's world with today's technology for most survey tasks to be handled remotely if the various survey personnel (field...

I guess if you wanted to you could have a pipeline with urine and feces for some process and just condemn and eminent domain We have lots of tho...

@jitterboogie yes extraction and sequestration are definitely differnt. I just dont see what the relvavnce is on a discussion about a pipleine. Mine...

what a wild turn of the law... extraction is the vehicle that allows the perfection of the oil and gas mineral rights. how does sequestration work i...

@richard-germiller oh I see. I was worried you were putting the actual title of the plat in quotation marks. Why do people do that? But that brings ...

Do you have the means to mathematically compute all of the elements to your boundary based on the 1940 plat data to the extent that you can determine ...