Traverse adjustments are intended to correct for random error. 2' sounds like more than random error to me. Even with your less then ideal circumstanc...

Putting lat/long on the corner is just as effective for recovery.

Your compromise description is adequate (although I think a bearings statement should be added). I was referring to the title company example, which?ÿ...

You are the licences surveyor. You should not allow an unlicensed title company employrr tell you how to write you land descriptions.?ÿ All the inform...

It's the same as using state plane. East .02' except it is geodetic east and the .02 doesnt need a scale factor. Although, much to the chagrin of my a...

Yes, scale factors are one reason. Other reasons are the inherent inaccuracies (the 1:10000 thing), and the fact that you will never match older surve...

What field and office software do you use that allows you to work directly in geographic coordinates? Carlson and topsurv.

Maybe about 5%. Only when GPS is not practical. But I use 0,0?ÿ not 5000,5000 negative numbers don't bother me. The remainder of my surveys are true m...

A?ÿmedial line?ÿbetween the ordinary low water lines (unlike OHW) would almost never be out of the water. I haven't read California case law extensive...

I think language like that usually means along the meandering brook, but I wouldn't give my opinion much weight, because local practice there may dict...

This makes their subscription service a lot less valuable.

The specific circumstances would have to guide you here, but using a distance like this would be a last resort.

The medial line is a center line. It is usually calculated from the ordinary high water line, but in some cases ordinary low water, or even the gradie...

Federal: 2009 BLM Manual Sec. 8-2: For lands fronting a nonnavigable inland body of water, the intention is that the upland ownership extends to the m...

Alaska: AS 09.25.040(4) when a road or stream of water not navigable is the boundary, the rights of the grantor to the middle of the road or the threa...

Texas: Moore v. Ashbrook, 197 S.W.2d 516, 517 (Tex. Civ. App. 1946) When there is a call for the bank, the place where the surveyor stopped is to be t...

What am I missing? Baker v. Normanoch is a case about a lake. Arnold v. Mundy is about a navigable body of water. Can you point me in the right direct...

We were talking about boundaries not water rights. Riperan rights for a boundary is the right to claim accretions ( and conversely the ability lose du...

Riparian rights and water rights are two different things. In some places and situations they are related, in some they are not. Every state recognize...

Riparian rights and water rights are two different things. In some places and situations they are related, in some they are not. Every state recognize...