I'll assume MightyMoe just expressed themselves badly and didn't actually intend to accuse everyone who ever looked a survey plat they didn't pay for ...

I think it's a given in today's world that a drawing will be displayed to an end user at a scale other than what the surveyor drew. (What does "what t...

I found a web page from the Maricopa County Recorder with requirements for recording a map: This web page does not mention a need for notarizations, ...

I can only speak for Vermont. As a notary, I have never been asked to notarize a survey plat. As a justice of the peace, I am a frequent visitor to th...

As a Vermont notary I would be interested how this turns out. One issue notaries have with notarial acts on survey plats is that the ink stamps used b...

@jimcox There is a web page that contains the parcel metadata atand it says its SPCS Vermont zone. There is also a page where the data can be download...

Vermont has a site,with extensive data available. Quite a bit of it can be viewed with their interactive map viewer. The whole range can be accessed a...

Section corners are features of the Public Land Survey System (PLSS). Wikipedia has an overview at/p> Connecticut was divided up by royal land grants ...

Connecticut abolished county government in 1960. Since then counties have only been geographical regions. Stamford is in Fairfield County. There is a ...

Seems to me like the left hand doesn't know, or care, what the right hand is doing. The property tax authorities would like up-to-date surveys to draw...

Why don't survey drawings get recorded? I'll make three guesses for states where it's up to the property owner: It costs money to record it.The outcom...

Automatics are OK with me, especially with the need to operate more complex navigation, and even more complex radios. Sticks are OK too; more fun. But...

"If it isn’t broke, why try to fix it?" If the existing law had never been passed, it wouldn't be broke. But the existing law will be sort of broke. §...

The Vermont bill has passed the senate and been sent to the house. Lurker's comment seem to suppose that legislation will be well-coordinated between ...

I'll comment on only one small part of your question. You mention "coordinates". I see no coordinates. I see phrases like South 05°58'35" West. That's...

What kind of survey is it? Boundary? Monitoring the structure? Is it near a boundary? Can you see that the layer of drainage rock is the same thicknes...

A mundane reason GNSS could become unusable for some people would be GPS jamming by truck drivers who don't want their bosses to know where they are, ...

I have downloaded the NOVAS software package(I downloaded the C version). It took some doing to figure out on a windows computer with the command prom...

One possible reason surveyors might be looking through this site for astronomical azimuth information is to prepare for the NCEES surveying exam. I wo...