@oldpacer I dont know where you have worked, and I am sure the highest paid engineers in the country make more than the highest paid surveyors, so I ...

@jimcox All the?ÿ places I have worked the highest paid surveyor gets paid more than the highest paid engineer. There are always lower paid survey st...

Make sure it is a Bachelor's degree unless he already has one, even if your state allows licensure without one. Many states require one, many of the b...

I dont know anyhting about South equipment, but Leica, Topcon, Javad and Trimble all live up their claims of weather resistance. All of these will be ...

@schmalzy There certainly?ÿ is a question of potential transfer of unwritten rights, but I misunderstood and thought the attorney was brought in to h...

Am I missing something??ÿ This doesnt look ambiguous at all. Why are attorneys being involved? Is it the two separate distances that are throwing peop...

@thebionicman Right. Negligence in an original survey where land has been patented just results in wonky "squares and rectangles". There is no going ...

@thebionicman Right. Negligence in an original survey where land has been patented just results in wonky "squares and rectangles". There is no going ...

Gross error is a legal concept that only applies to resurvey.?ÿ No matter how screwed up the original survey is,?ÿ it controls what was patented. What...

@bushaxe That's even worse!

@wagner152 Most states have something like this. Land owners don't want these, the banks and title companies want them. Landowners may convince them...

@bushaxe Please, no boundary plats with North not up (or south in the parts of the world that is appropriate), be creative, try portrait. Land survey...

@mightymoe Or an area with no publicly available GIS,?ÿ and a survey that is not georeferenced?ÿ

@dmyhill The question is whether it is surveying in the jurisdiction they produce the map in. States and Provinces?ÿ have the power to regulate profe...

Has anyone tried their services? I would like to see what you get, and how they produce it. Whether they are going too far or not depends on the deta...

The patentees of course can subdivide their land however they want, but the problem, as illustrated by the conflicting surveys, is that aliqout divisi...

@nate-the-surveyor State plane is more complicated than?ÿ we need, lat long with appropriate metadata is better, one less opportunity to screw up. B...

@mike-marks Modern ROW's usually far exceed the width neccesary for public use. So the ROW boundaries often have a bigger impact on the landowners th...

@mightymoe From a practical viewpoint I completely agree, but I do enjoy the variety and challenge when I do come across them.?ÿ

@mark-mayer High speed highways often are designed with spiral curves, but spiral ROWs are less common.?ÿ