Sounds like you have and accessory to prove it is undisturbed (the deck).?ÿ An original undisturbed monument is never off, but it doesn't sound like y...

Posted by: holy cow Find it amusing when someone suggests a two-acre survey is a major project. ?ÿ Spent today getting started at cutting 120 acres of...

The only use "Published coordinates" have is to help you find the true location. A monument that is only 0.2' different than the record call is right ...

No I don't think you are off base. I just think the blame should be on the "system" the individuals you are dealing with. Their hands may be tied by t...

Just like BLM is bound by federal statutes that dictate certain things about how an official survey needs to be done, DNR is bound by state statutes w...

If I was DNR I wouldn't necessarily trust anything DOT did either.

...but many surveyors still report only record distances and bearings on their surveys today. It's not any more useful today than it was in 1875.

NAD83 is all that is needed. I have not yet seen a state that has regulations prohibiting boundaries from being reported geodeticaly. I do mine that w...

Your data collector works on a curved earth, Carlson works on a curved earth, Traverse PC works on a curved earth...If you let your software dictate h...

But why mess with grid coordinates at all? Why do we insist on using 20th century methods when we all have 21st century software? We have known the wo...

No we are not insurance companies, but we certainly should not allow title companies to dictate what we survey.

Just A. Surveyor, post: 456874, member: 12855 wrote: Now I'm not going back and doing a chain of title but I find this puzzling and it raises a concer...

The measurements may not be perfect, but they are less suspect than trying to recreate the 1855 location of a stream on the plains with a 20?? Google ...

Daniel Ralph, post: 455748, member: 8817 wrote: I don't know how much from tangent the description is but let me guess; the preamble of the descriptio...

If the engineers are OK with non tangent curves why should the surveyor care? As long as enough curves elements are given a non tangent curve is just ...

Is it to late to change the description from the aliquot parts to a surveyed line based on the fence? If that's what he wants to sell he just needs a ...

How old are these plats?

Daniel Ralph, post: 454196, member: 8817 wrote: Alpha dog just has to lift its leg on everything. Probably right, but you would think they would want...

Jim in AZ, post: 453439, member: 249 wrote: I was just informed that a competitor has offered to perform an ALTA Survey for which I thought $12K was a...

Charles L. Dowdell, post: 453525, member: 82 wrote: Seems like I read some years ago that you will not get a perfect closure on a GLO/BLM section due ...