When thinking about starting a project, I like to figure out who it's for and what already exists. When I see "local gov't headed" I think, wow, this ...

A different take on this is an NGS video of a webinar. It's about driving 4 metal rods; one is vertical and the other three brace the vertical one. Th...

If the pond was created by a man-made dam, there could be liability if the dam bursts. Even if it doesn't burst, there may be regulations requiring pe...

The RPLS website keeps forgetting that I'm logged in. Since my faith in the security of the website is weakened by this, I'm not willing to check any ...

I suppose they could just say to the purported property owner making a complaint "where's your posted signs? Oh, you didn't mark your property lines? ...

I wonder why Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers are issuing tickets. Are they to hunters on what the officers think are state lands? Is it the alleg...

I think this highlights the difference between establishing or retracing boundaries as a land surveyor, and using boundaries as a landowner, hunter, f...

I would try to find when the deed wording was first composed, and consider if that was before the age of pocket calculators. Back then people tended t...

Being an electrical engineer, and since the angle is being measured from (0, 0), I think of a graph of the sine and cosine functions. These are smooth...

How binary circuits work, at least in computers: The answer flips back and forth unpredictably between 0 and 1 until the clock cycle runs out, and wha...

If a survey is filed in a government office that interacts with the agency that assesses real estate taxes, it's possible the value of the property wi...

It seems to me that if you care about the signature looking the same each time, you are concerned that someone will be looking at it closely. This ind...

I know some surveyors use sUAS (drones) for reconnaissance. Civil Air Patrol also operates sUAS and requires completion of a risk management matrix be...

As far as I can tell, United States National Grid is an overlay on UTM. Since UTM can be used with whichever horizontal datum you please, my hypothesi...

The last detailed, survey-quality survey of my road, performed by the government, was in 1811. There's no drawing, but there is a written description ...

I suggest investigating how property taxes are computed. In my state, the value may be based on a recent arms-length sale (a distressed sale or tax au...

I used to live in Castleton, two towns south of Swanton. I don't know any surveyors in that area. The snow isn't as much as it used to be; most storms...