@true-corner Telescopes are a lot cheaper than space missions, and we are paying for it.?ÿ Astronomy is a not insignificant part of the Arizona econom...

Are you sure there is not some misinterpretation going on? Have you read the actual ordinance?

The same way we know a good resurvey is correct, they refer to reliable sources.?ÿ

@gromatici How does the CA alternative method work? What do you do after you inverse and compare? 

Section 5-5?ÿby law, weight shall be given to locally marked boundaries insofar as they are based on good faith reliance on evidence ?ÿof the original...

All this talk about doing things by the book... but don't forget the book has more pages dedicated to not using the standard math than to actually usi...

As said above a partial easement vacation is usually the easiest way to go. Is it a P.U.E. or an easement granted to to a particular utility? In my ex...

First see where the techinicaly correct boundaries are, then look at occupation for the boundaries of your parcel. The occupations and accepted corner...

@jkinak That is easily solved by insuring that as well as being different colors, each kind of line is a different line type. 

@david3038 Exactly, there are many factors that are more important than area when calculating the price/value of a survey. 

Better than I expected. The problem with specs like that, is it leads some to believe that the accuracy of their surveys is 1", forgetting that there ...

@jp7191 Those virtual pin cushions are an awful practice. I never know what they are trying to say. Is the monument their corner, is it their computed...

@holy-cow A professional surveyor should know exactly how precise they are. It is tought in Survey 101 and on the FS exam. That is why I don't unders...

@holy-cow Equivalent means equal in value. In the thousands of surveys I have seen, I have never been one with a blanket statement stating all the me...

@holy-cow Ahh, I see where you are coming from. I think you are looking at it wrong though. When we report a line that is say 0.03' different than the...

@sreeserinpa I agree with notifying and asking even if your state doesn't require it, but your property rights aren't any more important than mine. A...

@holy-cow Everything you say is correct, but what does it have to do with reporting what you actually measure or not?

@a-harris Saying you measured 0.05' different is not saying the previous surveyor os wrong though, and that's were we need to educate the users of ou...

@david3038 Well hopefully you have some redundancy.?ÿ A "true" measurement isn't absolute. It is your honest best estimate. Reporting anything else as...

@bill93 I think that is much more preferable, especially when you sign a survey saying it represents your measurements. For example: I, _______, a p...