@bill93 But memorizing it is harder than deriving. I can always derive it in 20 seconds, but the best I can remember is that there is a 9 and 32 invo...

If you are going to be that much of a control freak, you are going to have to offer very good pay and benefits to make up for it, or just learn to lov...

@paul-in-pa Paul,  Most surveys were done by people who are dead. 

@paul-in-pa Questions like, "if it is not being vacated why question it." are the bane of our profession. We question it, becasue we are paid to find...

@dave-karoly What Dave describes is the law in the vast majority of states. In almost every state a call like "to the west boundary of the ROW" will ...

@andy-bruner The PS is a national exam, so nothing about state law or regulations, except for those that are universal. 

Which isn't helpful when you are retracing a survey done before 1919 that used a different length vara.?ÿ

@self-taught-surveyor I am still worried you are doing something wrong, how did you shoot the 210' vertical distance from only 200 feet away?????? ?...

And I am still hung up on being 200' away and shooting 210' up. That is a very difficult, or impossible shot on all the Total Stations I have ever use...

Like the others, I don't understand what you are trying to measure. You say, "sag program", and the sag is the most commonly measured part of a power ...

@dave-karoly If I understand you correctly, you are right: Do you mean that a surveyor has no right to move private boundaries, but does have the rig...

@ridge I agree with your last paragraph, except I haven't seen all that much flattening in the places I work. From what I have seen, those B.S.s in s...

?ÿYou are confusing federal authority resurveys, what Congress was debating, with State authority resurveys. A state authority surveyor can survey any...

@mike-marks It does sound arbitrary. In Alaska the "material discrepancy" standard is left up to professional judgment. There are endless arguments, ...

@murphy You are missing the point, the judgement doesn't achieve anything if your neighbor doesn't know.?ÿ The fact that a land survey is not legall...

@norman-oklahoma Any chance the parcels you looked at don't have any encumbrances? Listing all the encumbrances is standard on all the Oklahoma Sched...

Don't worry about the ABET. Even though many states make an ABET approved degree the clearest path towards a license they give the boards the option o...

@murphy Punting is the bane of our profession. That's why many see us as expert measurerers. They hire us for our opinion, and they get drawing of th...

@rover83 I think poor procedures vary more by state than by PLSS vs. Colonial States. Metes and Bounds descriptions with distant POB's are just as su...

@meansealevel Go where you want. There isn't much local content in any program that I know of, and the PS exam has a national scope anyway. Even in M...