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?ÿThe PLSS, it isn't any more susceptible to bad locations being perpetuated to distant locations than metes and bounds descriptions. Maybe it seems l...
You only have to record when you do something the effects people besides your client, like set a monument. Boundary information that is only known by ...
@james-vianna No, they only need legal advice from an attorney if the surveyor fails (not neccesarily the surveyors fault). We are the land boundary ...
@james-vianna Why hire a surveyor then? I would be out of a job if I followed your advice.
Don't forget about NMSU, Idaho State, OIT, Great Basin College (all online)...
One thing to think about, is that many states require four year degrees to be licensed. Unless you are sure that you will only want to work in MA you ...
@andy-bruner ...and yet you are exhibiting proper capitalisation as you speak.
I use all uppercase for annotations, but notes of to the side, and almost everything as long as a sentence is written in correct English. With CAD and...
@bill93 That's a lot better than nothing, but it's a rare survey that doesn't require research furhther back than the 90's.
That's one great thing about Alaska, all (almost) recorded deeds and surveys for the whole state are available online for free. The older ones are jus...
Oh wow, I didn't realise you were in AK, or I would have chimed in before. Alaska law is pretty clear that writting land descriptions fall within the ...
Use the smell test.
This was my initial response too, but are we missing something? This sounds like Survey 101.
This is not a new problem. This isn't different than the old "problem" of bearings and distances versus monuments. ?ÿ
In most places as long as you aren't part of the problem you don't need any documentation. Just be sure your actually out on essential business. Don't...
So you prefer to report measurements you know are wrong, to the most likely correct values based on your measurements?
That's why we record our surveys and explain what we are doing.
@jamesf1 I had to provide this to AZ when I got my AZ license in 2013 (or was it 2012?). Another hurdle to jump through put in place to prevent a non...
@steven-metelsky Try SSN.
@loyal Of course not. :hmm: