@rover83 Incorrect meta data is of course not acceptable. But we should be leaders in the field of geodetic positions, we shouldn't blindly follow wh...

@rover83 Incorrect meta data is of course not acceptable. But we should be leaders in the field of geodetic positions, we shouldn't blindly follow wh...

@shawn-billings There vs. their is likewise an act of extreme incompetence that does not prevent the product from being used as intended. I agree th...

@dave-karoly That's exactly right, but that doesn't mean we need to add the complexity of scale factors to our reported positions. The simpler we mak...

@murphy A total station trav should be tighter than an RTK survey.

@leegreen If there is sufficient control to reestablish what the previous surveyor did, it may he an error, but it's an error like using there instea...

@holy-cow yeah, I was just being annoying and pointing out the misuse of the hyphen.

It's not "rodman", it's the company name. I assume either this was flagged by an algorithm with no human input, or the person who reviewed this wasn't...

Public well?

slight chance of snow, High -12F, low -20F

I still don't understand why we are clinging to the 20th Century idea of State Plane Coordinates.?ÿ In the 21'st century none of us are routinely manu...

@a-harris Don't forget that creeks can move,

@holy-cow If you don't want the creek, you don't have to take it, but the deed needs to explicitly exclude it. There is no problem with that, unless ...

@a-harris Stopping at the bank is contrary to the law. Dave has illustrated that the usual U.S. presumption that title goes to the center applies in ...

@michael-geigerI  I don't know about GA in particular, but all the states I am familiar with interpret a call to a bank to be a call to the CL o...

@nate-the-surveyor Don't let practicalities get in the way of internet forum discussion.

@just-a-surveyor What a great illustration of why the metes and bounds in unnecessary. Of course a "picture" makes it easier to understand than a bun...

@jkinak In some states surveyors have not done as good a job educating title companies and attorneys as we have in Alaska, and they still insist on me...

I wouldn't use the term cul-de-sac, because cul-de-sac means dead end (literally bottom of th sack), but otherwise your description is clear.?ÿ I'd th...

@loyal Even then... Often I find FS BTs, but no record, either recorded or at the FS office.  What confounds me even more, is when the FS BT is...