@murphy You are confusing recording requirements with plat review requirements. They are two different things. I don't doubt that you have experience...

@mike-marks BLM and anyone who needs to replace a truly lost BLM/GLO corner need to deal with the roundness.   

@bstrand Texas is more authoritarian than California in many ways.  For example, in Texas if your patent from the state turns out to have more a...

Hoe was the easement created??ÿ I don't know a lot about California, but often local government road easements are not "owned" by the local governmen...

@douglas-w-chinn I wouldn't worry to much about the plastic caps, if your lucky no one will visit them for a few years and then they will be illegibl...

@thebionicman Short program routines always seemed useless to me. I was always able to beat the HP wizards with my Casio.  Unless you are tryin...

There is nor reason to learn an RPN calculator. They are a holdover from when computing power was a limited resource. If you need to buy a calculator ...

@dave-karoly For a GLO surveyor in 1930 that is actually a reasonable situation.  

When you are within the text editor command right click and check the box in Editor Settings.?ÿ

@ken-salzmann I with you on the 9 AM, and there aren't any other noons, but there is another 12, so that one doesn't bother me.  

@dave-karoly Reading the 1973 Manual as not allowing the acceptance of anything that isn't proven beyond a reasonable doubt is a misreading.  B...

I haven't heard him for years, so maybe he has come to his senses.?ÿ It is often mis-appllied so maybe he is back on the right track now??ÿ One thin...

Jeff Lucas has a lot of good things to say, but his rantings against the BLM Manual miss the point.?ÿ

@freefallin1309 Not talking to the public is good advise for construction, but a recipe for disaster in boundary work. Of course discretion is still ...

@paden-cash Good advice. One other thing to look at is old aerial photos, they usually go back to the 30's. If they show old occupation lines or road...

Sure, just like the locals there are bad out of towners, but the supply is bigger, so those who demand good work more often need someone from far away...

@holy-cow You don't need to be local to know to look for road records when you have section line road. I don't know how to count the times that I've ...

@holy-cow To be blunt, most "local" surveyors are not very good at their jobs. Unfortunately the out of town guys may be local somewhere too, but the...

@holy-cow I have found plenty of evidence in the field of random and true lines. I am not sure why you don't think the actually surveyed like the sai...

Wow, all you have to do is check out 90% of the originally monumented townships in the country for proof they considered the curvature of the earth. W...