Why would you treat your prior measurements any different than a different surveyor's measurements? I often downplay the importance of measurements fo...

You'd be surprised. Newer phones can be repeatable to within the accuracy that the vast majority of land owners care about. I've never seen neighbors ...

It doesn't make it legal or accurate, but it takes minimal skills?ÿ to be precise. As for valid, it depends on what the purpose of the measurements ar...

The cell phone locations will probably catch up with survey grade GPS in the not to distant future. To me, the issue of imprecision is much less impor...

If they are aliqout corners then they are marked that way. If not they are marked as APs

Oh, I see what the confusion is. The link I posted just goes to the earth explorer web page. The page I was trying to link to doesn't seem to exist an...

Posted by: John Giles I was speaking of the areas I work in. They don't have any that I have found, so far, on anything I've surveyed. I may get a job...

USGS has pbotos going back to the 1930s for much of the country.?ÿ These are invaluable for riparian boundaries, and dating fences and roads.?ÿ

Yes, the legal designation of the corner is easy to show, but still, a surprising number of plats neglect to show it, and a surprising number of surve...

Posted by: Rankin_File When reviewing surveys, I see a lot of different ways of depicting section corners- in a different century, I was taught to put...

You have gotten some good comments already, but I think equity and proportioning are sometimes misapplied, so here are two more. ?ÿ Although there are...

The original GLO surveyors meandered these rivers because the policy of the GLO dictating which rivers were meandered had nothing to do with navigabil...

Posted by: jim.cox ?ÿ New Zealand is a bit different - here the roads and streets are 'owned' by the city or county. Create a street on a subdivision ...

Posted by: Dan Dunn A map can not transfer title. Done correctly a deed(s) should have been filed dedicating the roads and easements.?ÿ The deed that ...

It looks like the drainage is at the edge of the subdivision. If this is true, the land owner to the east has no interest in it. Recessionary rights f...

You need to reject the corners as control for the boundaries between any two land owners that you can't make a very strong case of reliance or agreeme...

Walker and Varney are not surveyors. The "warranty"?ÿ part of a warranty deed is a warranty?ÿ from the grantor to the grantee. This statment is an att...

I finally have had time to read the dissent. I won't venture an opinion on the application of the Equal Footing Doctrine, but I think this is a crucia...

Adarondack Club V. Sierra Club does not consider the issue of title to the bed of the river: "Defendants counter that because the South Branch is navi...

Posted by: Duane Frymire "Stare decisis aside in the long haul of history, the Law of Nature will ultimately determine whether the Moose River is navi...